4 characters Idiom and proverb 16 883

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Introducing the idiom 「針頭線尾」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

Needle and thread for sewing.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhēn tóu xiàn wěi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jam1 tau4 sin3 mei5

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