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Discover the idiom 「草滿囹圄」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

The prison was covered with grass. It is a metaphor for clear politics and very few crimes.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

cǎo mǎn líng yǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chou2 mun5 ling4 yu5

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