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Today, we explore the idiom 「春蚓秋蛇」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

It is a metaphor for poorly written words, which are crooked and look like the traces left by earthworms and snakes crawling.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

chūn yǐn qiū shé

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

cheun1 yan5 chau1 se4

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