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This introduction highlights the idiom 「進身之階」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Step: stairs. A ladder that enables the body to ascend. It used to refer to a way to get promoted.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jìn shēn zhī jiē

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jeun3 san1 ji1 gaai1

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