Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「落荒而走」.
Here, we present the idiom 「落荒而走」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.
It means leaving the battlefield and fleeing into the wilderness. Describes fleeing after being defeated in a battle.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
luò huāng ér zǒu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
lok6 fong1 yi4 jau2
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