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Learn about the idiom 「蟲臂鼠肝」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

A metaphor for something extremely small and worthless.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

chóng bì shǔ gān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chung4 bei3 syu2 gon1

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