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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「利害得失」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

Pros and cons, gains and losses.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

lì hài dé shī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

lei6 hoi6 dak1 sat1

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