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Introducing the idiom 「改梁換柱」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

A metaphor for using tricks to secretly change the content of things or the nature of matters.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gǎi liáng huàn zhù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

goi2 leung4 wun6 chyu5

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