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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「伴食中書」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

It refers to the fact that the ruling ministers are incompetent and unable to do their job.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bàn shí zhōng shū

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bun6 sik6 jung3/jung1 syu1

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