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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「舉一廢百」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
To raise: to put forward; to discard: to abandon. To raise one point, to discard a great deal. Refers to one-sided understanding.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jǔ yī fèi bǎi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
geui2 yat1 fai3 baak3
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