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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「朵頤大嚼」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Duo: movement; Yi: chin. Eat as much as you can.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

duǒ yí dà jiáo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

deu2 yi4 daai6 jeuk3

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