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Our focus this time is on the idiom 「列鼎而食」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

Describes the luxurious life of wealthy aristocrats.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

liè dǐng ér shí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

lit6 ding2 yi4 sik6

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