Learn Chinese Short Phrase: lǎo yóu tiáo

Learn Chinese Short Phrase: lǎo yóu tiáo

　　Learn Chinese Short Phrase: lǎo yóu tiáo online at Bridge School Chinese Corner.

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　　老油条 lǎo yóu tiáo

　　Oily and wily

　　“油”给人一种滑溜的感觉，油条满身是油，比喻处事圆滑、社会经验极其丰富的人，从感觉上是恰如其分的。

　　You has a extended meaning of “slippery” or “foxy”. As youtiao (deep-fried twisted dough sticks, the most common Chinese breakfast) is oily from end to end, it’s not hard to understand why this expression came to mean those worldlywise people who are experienced and wily.

　　例：那位赵老板可是个老油条，跟他打交道可要分外小心。

　　Ex.：That Manager Mr. Zhao is a wily old bird, you’ve got to be extremely careful when you have dealing with him.

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