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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「敝衣糲食」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Ragged clothes and coarse food. Describes a difficult life.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bì yī lì shí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bai6 yi1 lai6 sik6
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