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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「綆短汲深」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
綆: a rope used to draw water; 汲: to draw water from a well. The rope of the bucket is too short to draw water from the deep well. The ability of metaphor is weak and it is difficult to take on difficult tasks.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bǐng duǎn jí shēn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gang2 dyun2 kap1 sam1
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