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Learn about the idiom 「盛水不漏」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

A metaphor for rigorous reasoning.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shèng shuǐ bù lòu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sing6 seui2 bat1 lau6

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