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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「瘠義肥辭」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

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The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jí yì féi cí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jek3 yi6 fei4 chi4

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