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Today’s spotlight is on the Chinese idiom 「快馬加鞭」. You’ll find its explanation and usage below.

A whip is added to a fast-running horse to make it run even faster. A metaphor for speeding up and accelerating.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

kuài mǎ jiā biān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

faai3 ma5 ga1 bin1

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