{"id":71,"date":"2009-05-05T14:37:27","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T22:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cantonesepod.com\/pods\/?p=71"},"modified":"2023-01-24T06:37:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T14:37:51","slug":"cantonese-idioms2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantonesepod.com\/pods\/cantonese-idioms2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cantonese Idiom:Knock on wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of our fans ask us to pronounce some idioms from http:\/\/www.cantonese.ca\/idioms.php<\/p>\n<p>1. \u5927\u5409\u5229\u662f knock on wood (knock the wood). It actually means saying something not quite appropriate at that time so bad luck would come if what is being would come true.<\/p>\n<p>2. \u5bf9\u725b\u5f39\u7434 play the music to the cow, who cannot understand. Talk to the wrong person.<\/p>\n<p>3. \u9001\u7f8a\u5165\u864e\u53e3 send the sheep to the tiger mouth (feed the tiger with your sheep... to sacrifice, waste)<\/p>\n<p>4. \u8bb2\u5c31\u5929\u4e0b\u65e0\u654c\uff0c \u505a\u5c31\u65e0\u80fd\u4e3a\u529b talk like a hero, act like a coward or useless person. Only lip service.<\/p>\n<p>Just go to&nbsp;<a title=\"Go the pronunciation of Cantonese and Mandarin Pinyin with definition\" href=\"http:\/\/de.mdbg.net\/chindict\/chindict.php?page=chardict&amp;cdcanoce=0&amp;cdqchi=learn+Cantonese+at+CantonesePod.com%0D%0A1.+%E5%A4%A7%E5%90%89%E5%88%A9%E6%98%AF+++++%0D%0A%0D%0A2.+%E5%AF%B9%E7%89%9B%E5%BC%B9%E7%90%B4++%0D%0A%0D%0A3.+%E9%80%81%E7%BE%8A%E5%85%A5%E8%99%8E%E5%8F%A3+++%0D%0A%0D%0A4.+%E8%AE%B2%E5%B0%B1%E5%A4%A9%E4%B8%8B%E6%97%A0%E6%95%8C%EF%BC%8C+%E5%81%9A%E5%B0%B1%E6%97%A0%E8%83%BD%E4%B8%BA%E5%8A%9B++&amp;cddmtm=1&amp;cddytm=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MDBG.net<\/a>&nbsp;for the detailed pronunciation and word by word definitions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of our fans ask us to pronounce some idioms from http:\/\/www.cantonese.ca\/idioms.php 1. \u5927\u5409\u5229\u662f knock on wood (knock the wood). It actually means saying something not quite appropriate at that time so bad luck would come if what is being would come true. 2. \u5bf9\u725b\u5f39\u7434 play the music to the cow, who cannot understand. Talk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,31],"tags":[41,45],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cantonese Idiom:Knock on wood - Learn Cantonese \u5b66\u7ca4\u8bed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cantonesepod.com\/pods\/cantonese-idioms2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cantonese Idiom:Knock on wood - Learn Cantonese \u5b66\u7ca4\u8bed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Some of our fans ask us to pronounce some idioms from http:\/\/www.cantonese.ca\/idioms.php 1. \u5927\u5409\u5229\u662f knock on wood (knock the wood). 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