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Today’s idiom is 「指天射魚」. We’ve outlined its meaning and practical application below.
Shoot the fish in the river towards the sky. A metaphor for something that is bound to fail.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhǐ tiān shè yú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ji2 tin1 se6 yu2
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