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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「唇揭齒寒」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Without lips, teeth feel cold. A metaphor for the close connection between interests. Same as “lips and teeth are interdependent”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
chún jiē chǐ hán
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
seun4 kit3 chi2 hon4
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