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This introduction highlights the idiom 「明珠彈雀」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Use pearls to shoot birds. A metaphor that what is gained cannot compensate for what is lost.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
míng zhū dàn què
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ming4 jyu1 taan4/daan6 jeuk2
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