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Learn about the idiom 「帷燈匣劍」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Cover the lamp with a curtain and hide the sword in a box. A metaphor for the truth being hard to tell and causing suspicion.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wéi dēng xiá jiàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
wai4 dang1 haap6 gim3
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