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Learn about the idiom 「削足適履」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Shi: to adapt to; Lu: shoes. Because the shoes were small and the feet were big, a piece of the foot was cut off to make it fit the size of the shoes. It is a metaphor for making unreasonable compromises or forcing things into something without considering specific conditions.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xuē zú shì lǚ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
seuk3 juk1 sik1 lei5
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