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Sunday, September 24, 2006

Chinese idioms

Was stuck upstairs in my room today so I had some time to clear up my old stuff. Went through all my notes at uni and found something really interesting, my old chinese notes!

Here are some pearls of wisdoms I gleamed from classical chinese class. These are "cheng yu" or idioms I think.

Zou ma kan hua - "riding a horse while looking at flowers" (translated as having a cursory glance at something)

Qi Hu Nan Xia - "once you've climbed a tiger its hard to get off" (used to describe the difficulty in getting out of something)

You never know what you find lurking in your closets.

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