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In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「主客顛倒」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.

It is a metaphor that the importance of things is reversed.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhǔ kè diān dǎo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jyu2 haak3 din1 dou2

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