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The idiom 「擢筋剝膚」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.

Cramps and skinning. A metaphor for severe and cruel exploitation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhuó jīn bāo fū

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jok6 gan1 mok1 fu1

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