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Here is the Chinese idiom 「珠投璧抵」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
It means throwing pearls and jade at magpies. A metaphor for talented people not being valued.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhū tóu bì dǐ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jyu1 tau4 bik1 dai2
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