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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「剜肉生瘡」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

It’s like cutting flesh to make a sore. It is a metaphor for doing things only considering one side, resulting in the opposite of what was expected.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wān ròu shēng chuāng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wun1 yuk6 saang1 chong1

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