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The featured idiom 「披麻帶索」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
Still wearing sackcloth and mourning clothes. Refers to wearing deep mourning clothes.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
pī má dài suǒ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
pei1 ma4 daai3/daai2 sok3
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