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Introducing the idiom 「布衣糲食」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

Describes a hard life. Same as “cloth clothes and vegetarian diet”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bù yī lì shí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bou3 yi1 lai6 sik6

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