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This introduction highlights the idiom 「有的放矢」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
De: target; Shi: arrow. Shoot the arrow at the target. A metaphor for being targeted in what you say and do.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǒu de fàng shǐ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yau5 dik1 fong3 chi2
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