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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「馬瘦毛長」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

It is a metaphor that people who are in poor situation will appear to be low in spirits.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

mǎ shòu máo zhǎng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ma5 sau3 mou1/mou4 cheung4/jeung2

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