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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「添鹽著醋」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
A metaphor for narrating an event or relaying someone else’s words, adding content that was not originally there in order to exaggerate it. Same as “add fuel to the fire”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
tiān yán zhe cù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
tim1/tim3 yim4 jeuk3/jeuk6 chou3
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