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This feature highlights the idiom 「非此即彼」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Non-: not; this: this; that: that; that: that. It’s either this one or that one.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fēi cǐ jí bǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fei1 chi2 jik1 bei2

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