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This feature highlights the idiom 「白骨再肉」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Flesh grows again on the bones. A metaphor for coming back to life.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bái gǔ zài ròu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

baak6 gwat1 joi3 yuk6

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