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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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