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Here is the Chinese idiom 「指親托故」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
Refers to relatives, pretending to be old friends. It means to cling to powerful people.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhǐ qīn tuō gù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ji2 chan1 tok3 gu2/gu3
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