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Introducing the idiom 「東遮西掩」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
It refers to covering up and concealing the truth.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dōng zhē xī yǎn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dung1 je1 sai1 yim2
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