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For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「丁公鑿井」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

metaphor for being distorted due to being passed around.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dīng gōng záo jǐng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ding1 gung1 jok6 jeng2

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