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Introducing the idiom 「降本流末」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
It’s like losing sight of the main point and pursuing the trivial. It is a metaphor for not grasping the fundamental links, but only focusing on minor issues.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jiàng běn liú mò
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gong3 bun2 lau4 mut6
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