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Discover the idiom 「露尾藏頭」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

The head is hidden and the tail is exposed. Describes speaking evasively and not telling the whole truth.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

lù wěi cáng tóu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

lou6 mei5 chong4 tau4

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