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Learn about the idiom 「過隙白駒」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Gap: space; white colt: originally refers to a white horse, later used as a metaphor for the shadow of the sun. It is a metaphor that time passes quickly like a horse passing through a tiny gap.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
guò xì bái jū
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gwo3 kwik1/gwik1 baak6 keui1
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