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To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「丟卒保車」 explained, free of charge.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「丟卒保車」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

This is originally a chess term. The latter metaphor means discarding the secondary and keeping the primary.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

diū zú bǎo chē

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

diu6 jeut1 bou2 che1

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