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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「杯中蛇影」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
A metaphor for the fear caused by suspicion. Same as “seeing a snake in a cup of wine”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bēi zhōng shé yǐng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bui1 jung3/jung1 se4 ying2
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