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Introducing the idiom 「篤新怠舊」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
It means that people get tired of the old and love the new. Like the new and dislike the old. It usually refers to unfaithful love.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dǔ xīn dài jiù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
duk1 san1 toi5 gau6
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