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Learn about the idiom 「老蠶作繭」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
The old silkworm spins silk to make a cocoon and wraps itself inside. A metaphor for restraining oneself.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
lǎo cán zuò jiǎn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
lou5 chaam4 jok3 gaan2
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