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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「犁牛騂角」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
A metaphor for a bad father giving birth to virtuous children. Same as “the plow grows horns”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
lí niú xīng jiǎo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
lai4 ngau4 sing1 gok3
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