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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「揚湯止沸」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Scoop up the boiling water in the pot and pour it back in to cool it down and stop it from boiling. The metaphor method is not thorough and cannot solve the problem fundamentally.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yáng tāng zhǐ fèi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yeung2/yeung4 tong1 ji2 fai3
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