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The featured idiom 「抉瑕掩瑜」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
Flaw: a spot on jade; Yu: the luster of jade. Deliberately picking out spots on jade to hide its brilliance. A metaphor for deliberately picking on other people’s shortcomings and weaknesses while ignoring their advantages and strengths.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jué xiá yǎn yú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
kyut3 ha4 yim2 yu4
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