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Our focus this time is on the idiom 「瓜葛相連」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

Melon and kudzu: both are climbing plants whose vines can climb on other objects. ①A metaphor for the complicated and intertwined social relationships. ② A metaphor for the relationship between two things or two people.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

guā gě xiàng lián

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gwa1 got3 seung1 lin4

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