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Learn about the idiom 「砸鍋賣鐵」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Smash the pot and sell it for scrap metal. It means being extremely bored and having no way out. It also means taking out everything.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zá guō mài tiě
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jaap3/jaak3 wo1 maai6 tit3
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