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Introducing the idiom 「思婦病母」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

It refers to a man who wants to return to his hometown under the pretext of his mother’s illness because he misses his wife. A metaphor for falsification.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

sī fù bìng mǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

si1 fu5 beng6 mou5

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