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Here’s the idiom 「反裘負薪」, with its definition and practical application described below.
Wearing a fur coat inside out and carrying firewood. Describes poverty and hard work. It also refers to a person who is ignorant and does not know the importance of things. Same as “carrying straw and carrying fur coat on the back”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fǎn qiú fù xīn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
faan2 kau4 fu6 san1
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