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This introduction highlights the idiom 「雞屍牛從」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
It is a metaphor that one would rather be independent in a small situation than be dominated by others in a big situation.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jī shī niú cóng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gai1 si1 ngau4 chung4
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