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Here is the Chinese idiom 「江郎才盡」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
Originally it referred to the fact that Jiang Yan was not famous for his literary works when he was young, and that his poems and essays in his later years had no good lines. A metaphor for the decline of talent.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jiāng láng cái jìn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gong1 long4 choi4 jeun6
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