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Learn about the idiom 「街頭巷底」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Refers to the streets and alleys. Same as “streets and alleys”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiē tóu xiàng dǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gaai1 tau4 hong6/hong2 dai2

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