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Here’s the idiom 「鉤元提要」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Hook: explore; raise: cite; outline: outline. Explore the subtleties and extract the key points.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gōu yuán tí yào

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ngau1 yun4 tai4 yiu3

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