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Here is the Chinese idiom 「橫草之功」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Horizontal grass: trample the grass down. It is as meritorious as trampling down the grass. A metaphor for minor achievement.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

héng cǎo zhī gōng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

waang4 chou2 ji1 gung1

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