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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「鼠穴尋羊」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

A metaphor for ineffective practices.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shǔ xué xún yáng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

syu2 yut6 cham4 yeung4

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