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Let’s learn about the idiom 「按圖索駿」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.

Refers to looking for a good horse according to its portrait. A metaphor for doing things by the book; also a metaphor for seeking something based on clues. See “Follow the map to find the horse”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

àn tú suǒ jùn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

on3 tou4 sok3 jeun3

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