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This feature highlights the idiom 「蹠犬吠堯」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Jie’s dogs barked wildly at Yao. A metaphor for everyone serving his own master.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhí quǎn fèi yáo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jik3 hyun2 fai6 yiu4

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