We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「敷衍了事」.
Here, we present the idiom 「敷衍了事」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.
Perfunctory: doing things not seriously; finished: finished. It means doing things in a sloppy manner, just trying to get by.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fū yǎn le shì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fu1 hin2 liu5 si6
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