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The idiom being introduced now is 「坐地自劃」. Below, you’ll find its meaning and usage examples.

Stay where you are and set your own scope. A metaphor for being stubborn on one side and excluding the others.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zuò dì zì huà

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

cho5 dei6/dei2 ji6 waak6

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