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Introducing the idiom 「斷織之誡」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
Mencius’ mother used the example of cutting the yarn on the loom, preventing the yarn from being made into cloth, to warn her son against giving up his studies halfway. Later, this story was used to warn those who dropped out of school.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
duàn zhī zhī jiè
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
tyun5 jik1 ji1 gaai3
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