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Let’s dive into the idiom 「暗度金針」. Its definition and application are outlined below.

Degree: same as “du”, meaning transition, and is extended to mean to impart. Later it was used to refer to a secret. It also refers to behind-the-scenes transactions.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

àn dù jīn zhēn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

am3 dou6/dok6/dou2 gam1 jam1

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