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Here’s the idiom 「塵垢秕糠」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Dust: dust; dirt: dirt; chaff: chaff; bran: rice bran. A metaphor for something trivial and useless.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

chén gòu bǐ kāng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chan4 gau3 bei2 hong1

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