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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「絲來線去」 for your learning.

Here’s the idiom 「絲來線去」, with its definition and practical application described below.

A metaphor for entanglement.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

sī lái xiàn qù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

si1 loi4 sin3 heui3

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