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The featured idiom 「擔雪塞井」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
Carrying snow to fill the well. A metaphor for futile efforts.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dān xuě sāi jǐng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
daam1 syut3 sak1 jeng2
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