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Introducing the idiom 「借酒澆愁」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

Use alcohol to relieve the depression in your heart.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiè jiǔ jiāo chóu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

je3 jau2 giu1/hiu1 sau4

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