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This introduction highlights the idiom 「指雁為羹」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

A metaphor for using fantasies to comfort oneself.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhǐ yàn wéi gēng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ji2 ngaan6 wai6/wai4 gang1

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