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We’re presenting the idiom 「染舊作新」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
It means to change something’s appearance and pass it off as new.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
rǎn jiù zuò xīn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yim5 gau6 jok3 san1
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