As you know, news headline should be short, straight to the point and meaningful in whatever languages. Therefore, reading news headline is a good way to learn language. In the coming posts, we will occasionally write something about news headline.
Here is a very interesting news headline that I read yesterday –
mei5 gwok3 zung1 zi2 jyu5 ji1 long5 jau5 hou2 tiu4 joek3, lyun4 hap6 gwok3 faat3 ting4 sing4 mou4/mou3 ngaa4 lou5 fu2
U.S. terminates the treaty of amity with Iran. U.N. court becomes a tiger without teeth.
If you haven’t read the news in English, you can read it in this link.
* We do not make any comment or judgement on any news in this website, but we want to point out some interesting Cantonese expressions used in news reports.
The headline says the U.N. court becomes a tiger without teeth because it does not have the power to enforce its decisions.
We can use “無牙老虎” to describe someone without any power even if he is at a high position.
