牆倒眾人推

Chinese

wall
 
upset; turn over; to tip
upset; turn over; to tip; to pour; to go home; to the contrary; inverted; to fall; to collapse; to topple; to change; to fail; bankrupt
push; refuse (responsibility); shove
trad. (牆倒眾人推) 眾人
simp. (墙倒众人推) 众人
Literally: “Everyone gives a shove to a falling wall.”

Pronunciation

  • Mandarin
    (Pinyin): qiáng dǎo zhòngrén tuī
    (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄤˊ ㄉㄠˇ ㄓㄨㄥˋ ㄖㄣˊ ㄊㄨㄟ
  • Cantonese (Jyutping): coeng4 dou2 zung3 jan4 teoi1
  • Wu (Wiktionary): xxian tau (T3) + tson nyin the (T2)

Proverb

牆倒眾人推

  1. Everyone will seize the opportunity to attack a person when he or she loses power or influence
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