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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「食不餬口」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

Can’t eat a full stomach. Describes a hard and difficult life.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shí bù hú kǒu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sik6 bat1 wu4 hau2

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