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Learn about the idiom 「步雪履穿」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Describes a person who is poor and destitute.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bù xuě lǚ chuān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bou6 syut3 lei5 chyun1

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