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Discover the idiom 「掩瑕藏疾」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
Cover: to cover. Flaw: a spot on jade, a metaphor for a flaw. Hide: conceal. Disease: problem, fault. Cover up shortcomings and conceal mistakes.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǎn xiá cáng jí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yim2 ha4 chong4 jat6
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