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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「遺珥墜簪」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
Describes drinking happily without being bound by rules. Same as “the hairpin and earring are lost”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yí ěr zhuì zān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
wai4 nei6 jeui6 jaam1
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