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Here is the Chinese idiom 「一朝千里」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Still making rapid progress. Originally used to describe a horse running very fast. The latter metaphor means progress is very fast.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yī cháo qiān lǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat1 jiu1 chin1 leui5

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