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Learn about the idiom 「作舍道邊」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Build a house by the roadside and negotiate with passers-by. It is a metaphor that everyone has their own opinions and things cannot be done successfully.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zuò shě dào biān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jok3 se3 dou6 bin1

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