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This introduction highlights the idiom 「枯木朽株」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Dead wood and rotten roots. A metaphor for decaying power or an old and useless person.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

kū mù xiǔ zhū

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fu1 muk6 nau2 jyu1

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