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Learn about the idiom 「節衣縮食」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Save on food and clothing. Describes thrift.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiē yī suō shí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jit3 yi1 suk1 sik6

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