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This feature highlights the idiom 「道不相謀」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

It means that people with different ideas and ambitions will not work together.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dào bù xiàng móu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dou6 bat1 seung2 mau4

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