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Let’s learn about the idiom 「駑馬十舍」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.
If you use a horse to pull a carriage, one day is called one ride, and ten rides means a journey of ten days. It means that even if a slow horse pulls a cart with all its strength, it can still go a long way. It is a metaphor that people with low abilities can achieve their goals as long as they work hard.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
nú mǎ shí shě
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
nou4 ma5 sap6 se3
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