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The idiom being introduced now is 「大頭小尾」. Below, you’ll find its meaning and usage examples.
It’s like “starting strong but ending weak”. It is a metaphor for doing things in a tense manner at the beginning but slackly at the end, and having a beginning but no
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dà tóu xiǎo wěi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
daai6 tau2 siu2 mei5
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