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This feature highlights the idiom 「功敗垂成」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Chui: close, about to. Things failed just when they were about to succeed.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
gōng bài chuí chéng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gung1 baai6 seui4 sing4
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