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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「衣錦褧衣」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
A single linen gown is worn over the brocade robe to cover up its splendor. A metaphor for not showing off to others.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī jǐn jiǒng yī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yi1 gam2 gwing2 yi1
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