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Learn about the idiom 「授柄於人」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
It means giving someone a handle. It is a metaphor for handing power over to others or letting others seize your shortcomings and mistakes, making yourself passive.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shòu bǐng yú rén
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sau6 beng3 yu1 yan4
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