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We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「肩背相望」.

Here’s the idiom 「肩背相望」, with its definition and practical application described below.

It means occurring one after another, continuously.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiān bèi xiàng wàng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gin1 bui3 seung2 mong6

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