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The idiom being introduced now is 「燃萁煎豆」. Below, you’ll find its meaning and usage examples.
A metaphor for fratricide. Same as “boiling beans with firewood”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
rán qí jiān dòu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yin4 kei4 jin1 dau2
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