In your studies of Chinese, surely you’ve already come across many, many idioms. You probably feel like you’ll never be able to learn all of the idioms you need to know! Once you read the story behind the idiom, however, you’ll never forget it. This book contains the origin of twelve popular and useful idioms including: ”The war between the snipe and the clam” and ”Pull on the seedlings to make them grow.” After reading the entertaining stories behind the idioms, you’ll be confident using them in your spoken and written Chinese.