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This introduction highlights the idiom 「高人一籌」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Expert: taller than the average person; chips: chips. One chip higher than the average person. It means to surpass others.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gāo rén yī chóu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gou1 yan4 yat1 chau4/chau2

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