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Learn about the idiom 「饔飧不給」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
I can’t provide myself with three meals a day. Describes poverty. Same as “no food to eat”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yōng sūn bù gěi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yung1 syun1 bat1 kap1
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