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Here’s the idiom 「片鱗殘甲」, with its definition and practical application described below.

A metaphor for a very small part of something. Same as “a piece of scales and armor”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

piàn lín cán jiǎ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

pin2/pin3 leun4 chaan4 gaap3

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