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Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「名韁利鎖」, with its explanation and usage provided below.
It is a metaphor that fame and fortune bind people like reins and chains.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
míng jiāng lì suǒ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ming4/meng2 geung1 lei6 so2
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