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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「話裏帶刺」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Refers to the words containing ridicule and sarcasm. Same as “speaking with a sting”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
huà lǐ dài cì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
wa6 leui5 daai3/daai2 chi3
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