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Here’s the idiom 「泥牛入海」, with its definition and practical application described below.

The clay cow fell into the sea. A metaphor for leaving and never coming back.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

ní niú rù hǎi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

nai4 ngau4 yap6 hoi2

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