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Our focus this time is on the idiom 「攻瑕指失」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

Criticize shortcomings and point out mistakes.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gōng xiá zhǐ shī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gung1 ha4 ji2 sat1

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