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Introducing the idiom 「鼠首僨事」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
Ruined things. It is a metaphor for people who are indecisive in doing things, just like a timid mouse, stretching and retracting its head at the entrance of the hole when trying to exit it.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shǔ shǒu fèn shì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
syu2 sau2 fan5 si6
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