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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「鬥升之水」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

A metaphor for a small amount of funding.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dòu shēng zhī shuǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dau3 sing1 ji1 seui2

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