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Here’s the idiom 「纖介之失」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Fiber: fine. A very small fault.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xiān jiè zhī shī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chim1 gaai3 ji1 sat1

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