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Learn about the idiom 「水過鴨背」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

It is a metaphor that no trace is left after something happens.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shuǐ guò yā bèi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

seui2 gwo3 aap3 bui3

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