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Today’s idiom is 「室徒四壁」. We’ve outlined its meaning and practical application below.

It means that there is nothing in the room. A metaphor for poverty.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shì tú sì bì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sat1 tou4 sei3 bik1

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