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Discover the idiom 「階前萬裏」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

It is thousands of miles away, yet it seems right in front of you. A metaphor for something that is far away but seems to be right in front of you.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiē qián wàn lǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gaai1 chin4 maan6 leui5

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