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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「得寸得尺」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
It means that one gains something, more or less. Later it also means to get as much as you can.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dé cùn dé chǐ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dak1 chyun3 dak1 chek3
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