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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「坐失良機」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Losing good opportunities by not taking proactive and timely action.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zuò shī liáng jī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

cho5 sat1 leung4 gei1

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