If you’re a sports fan, think about the day that your team lost big in the arena. If you’re a
Tag: Chinese Idiom
Chinese idiom 爱莫能助 – Love to help but can not
Have you ever felt that however much you wanted to help someone, you just couldn’t due to all kinds of
Use 挨家挨户 to express “door to door” in Chinese
Can we use “门到门” to translate “door to door”? No, please don’t! Actually there’s a Chinese idiom perfectly fits the
Expression in Chinese to describe people that share similarities (物以类聚, 英雄所见略同)
People are inclined to be close to other people that have similar opinions and attitudes, hobbies and interests. To describe
To settle a matter by leaving it unsettled – Chinese idiom 不了了之
If you’ve been learning Chinese for some time, character “了” should be no stranger to you. It appears almost everywher
“Wind” and “Shadow” that you shouldn’t chase – Chinese idiom 捕风捉影
Some Chinese idioms are easier to be learned by switching the character order and turning them into normal word order
Do you understand every occurrence of the Chinese characters “大 big” and “小 small”?
Big and small, 大 dà and 小 xiǎo, are two of the simplest Chinese characters you’ve ever learned. Do you
Birds of a Feather 物以类聚
Birds of a feather flock together is a popular English proverb used to describe how people with similar tastes tend
The Same Road to Ruin 重蹈覆辙
The Chinese idiom 重蹈覆辙 (chong2 dao3 fu4 zhe2) advises us (especially if we are young) to be careful to draw
Casting Pearls Before the Cattle!? 對牛彈琴
The Chinese idiom 對牛彈琴 (dui4 niu2 tan2 qin2) literally means play the lute to the cattle. It alludes to the
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