Author name: Ben Mays

Have you ever had to keep a secret so tightly guarded that not even your best friend could pry it out of you? That’s the perfect moment for today’s idiom: 守口如瓶 (shǒu kǒu rú píng), which vividly translates to “keeping one’s mouth sealed like a bottle.” Imagine a tightly corked bottle—nothing gets in, and nothing gets out. […]

Imagine you’ve found yourself in a situation that spirals out of control. Maybe it started with a simple white lie, but now it’s grown into something bigger, and you feel stuck—unable to move forward or back out gracefully. This is exactly the feeling captured by today’s idiom: 騎虎難下 (qí hǔ nán xià), which describes being caught in