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Introducing the idiom 「以桃代李」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
A metaphor for replacing someone else with oneself.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǐ táo dài lǐ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yi5 tou2 doi6 lei5
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