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Here is the Chinese idiom 「壓雪求油」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

A metaphor for something that is difficult to do.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yā xuě qiú yóu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

aat3 syut3 kau4 yau2/yau4

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