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This feature highlights the idiom 「鼠雀之牙」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Refers to litigation matters.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shǔ què zhī yá

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

syu2 jeuk2 ji1 nga4

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