4 characters Idiom and proverb 27 848

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Learn about the idiom 「戴笠乘車」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

A metaphor for not changing the friendship between people in poverty because of wealth and status.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dài lì chéng chē

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

daai3 lap1 sing4 che1

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