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Here’s the idiom 「呼牛作馬」, with its definition and practical application described below.
It is a metaphor that no matter whether others scold or praise you, you never care. Same as “calling cows and horses”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
hū niú zuò mǎ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fu1 ngau4 jok3 ma5
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