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The idiom 「東風過耳」 and its usage are explored below. Learn its meaning and applications here.
It is a metaphor for treating other people’s words as wind in the ears, turning a deaf ear to them and remaining indifferent. Same as “the east wind shoots at the horse’s ears”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dōng fēng guò ěr
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dung1 fung1 gwo3 yi5
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