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Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「進賢退愚」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Promote the wise and capable, and dismiss the foolish and cowardly.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jìn xián tuì yú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jeun3 yin4 teui3 yu4

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