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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「食饑息勞」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

It means to feed the hungry and let the tired rest.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shí qí xī láo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sik6 gei1 sik1 lou4

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