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The idiom 「水底撈針」 and its usage are explored below. Learn its meaning and applications here.
Fish out a needle from under the water. Describes something that is difficult to find.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shuǐ dǐ lāo zhēn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
seui2 dai2 lou1/laau4 jam1
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