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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「釆薪之憂」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Collecting firewood: chopping firewood. I can’t chop wood when I’m sick. A euphemism for claiming to be ill.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
cǎi xīn zhī yōu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bin6 san1 ji1 yau1
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