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The idiom 「膝癢搔背」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.
My knees itch, but I scratch my back. A metaphor for not using the right force.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xī yǎng sāo bèi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sat1 yeung5 sou1 bui3
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