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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「覆舟之戒」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

Lessons from overturning a ship. A metaphor for the lessons of failure.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fù zhōu zhī jiè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fuk1 jau1 ji1 gaai3

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