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Introducing the idiom 「易口以食」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
It’s like exchanging one’s own children for food. Mouth, Ding mouth. Describes the extremely miserable lives of disaster victims.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yì kǒu yǐ shí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yi6 hau2 yi5 sik6
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