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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「加膝墜淵」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
If you like her, hold her in your lap; if you don’t like her, push her into deep water. A metaphor for the fickleness of people’s likes and dislikes.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jiā xī zhuì yuān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ga1 sat1 jeui6 yun1
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