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Discover the idiom 「頓開茅塞」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Dun: immediately; Maosai: refers to a person who is closed-minded or ignorant. It is a metaphor for the sudden enlightenment of the mind and the immediate understanding of a certain truth.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dùn kāi máo sāi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

deun6 hoi1 maau4 sak1

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