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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「餔糟歠醨」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

① Eat distiller’s grains and drink light wine. Refers to the pursuit of drunkenness. ② A metaphor for bending to the will and following the crowd; going with the flow. ③It is used to describe words that are beautiful and intoxicating.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bū zāo chuò lí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bou1 jou1 jyut3 lei4

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