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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「飲河鼴鼠」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
A metaphor for someone whose needs or income are extremely limited.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǐn hé yǎn shǔ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yam2 ho4 yin2 syu2
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