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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「買鐵思金」, with details below.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「買鐵思金」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

A metaphor for unrealistic greed and delusion.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

mǎi tiě sī jīn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

maai5 tit3 si1 gam1

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