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Learn about the idiom 「鬥雞走犬」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Refers to the boring games played by the children of the exploiting class in the old days when they were idle. Same as “cockfighting and running dogs”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dòu jī zǒu quǎn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dau3 gai1 jau2 hyun2
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