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Introducing the idiom 「朽骨重肉」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

A metaphor for something that has become rotten being given new life.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xiǔ gǔ zhòng ròu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

nau2 gwat1 jung6/chung5/chung4 yuk6

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