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Today, we explore the idiom 「百巧成窮」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.
It means that people with many talents are actually poor. Same as “a hundred tricks and a thousand difficulties”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bǎi qiǎo chéng qióng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
baak3 haau2 sing4 kung4
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