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This feature highlights the idiom 「鑿隧入井」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
A metaphor for much effort with little result.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
záo suì rù jǐng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jok6 seui6 yap6 jeng2
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