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Ten dou is one shi, and two shi is one dan. Describes that there is no food stored at home. A metaphor for difficult family circumstances.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jiā wú dān shí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ga1 mou4 daam1 sek6
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