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The featured idiom 「食馬留肝」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
Later it was used in reverse to mean failing to absorb the essence.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shí mǎ liú gān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sik6 ma5 lau4 gon1
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