Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「杯蛇幻影」.
Discover the idiom 「杯蛇幻影」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
A metaphor for being suspicious and frightening oneself. Same as “seeing a snake in a cup of wine”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bēi shé huàn yǐng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bui1 se4 waan6 ying2
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