粵

班baan1門mun4弄lung6斧fu2

simp班门弄斧
baan1 mun4 lung6 fu2Bān mén nòng fǔ

English

  1. to display one's slight skill before an expert (idiom)
  2. to show off in front of an expert; to teach a fish how to swim (sometimes as a humble rhetoric)

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 喺啲老行尊面前賣弄自己功夫（有時用作自謙）

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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