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This introduction highlights the idiom 「狐媚猿攀」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
As good at deceiving people as a fox, and as good at climbing high as a monkey. A metaphor for pursuing fame and fortune by any means necessary.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
hú mèi yuán pān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
wu4 mei6 yun4 paan1
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