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Today’s idiom is 「塞翁之馬」. We’ve outlined its meaning and practical application below.
Saima. It is a metaphor that gains and losses are unpredictable and fortune is interdependent.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
sāi wēng zhī mǎ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sak1 yung1 ji1 ma5
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