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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「天懸地隔」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

Suspended, separated: far distance. The metaphors are very different.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tiān xuán dì gé

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tin1 yun4 dei6/dei2 gaak3

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