4 characters Idiom and proverb 23 963

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Introducing the idiom 「截鐙留鞭」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

Later it was used as a set phrase to express farewell to officials who were leaving their jobs. It can also be abbreviated as “jiedeng”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jié dèng liú biān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jit6 dang3 lau4 bin1

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