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Learn about the idiom 「舐皮論骨」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Lick: lick. A metaphor for making rash comments based on only superficial phenomena.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shì pí lùn gǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

laai2/lem2 pei4 leun6 gwat1

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