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For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「錦囊妙計」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
Old novels describe resourceful people who write down strategies for dealing with the enemy on pieces of paper and put them in a brocade bag so that the person concerned can read it in an emergency. A metaphor for a clever plan that is well prepared.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jǐn náng miào jì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gam2 nong4 miu6 gai3
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