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Learn about the idiom 「白首一節」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

It means that although one is old, his ambition and integrity remain unchanged.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bái shǒu yī jiē

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

baak6 sau2 yat1 jit3

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