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Introducing the idiom 「抽絲剝繭」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

The silk has to be pulled out strand by strand and the cocoon has to be peeled off layer by layer. Describes the analysis of things in a very detailed and layered manner, step by step.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

chōu sī bāo jiǎn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chau1 si1 mok1 gaan2

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