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Here’s the idiom 「汲深綆短」, with its definition and practical application described below.
It means that the well is deep and the rope is short. Later it is used to describe being unable to do something.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jí shēn bǐng duǎn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
kap1 sam1 gang2 dyun2
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