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Today’s spotlight is on the Chinese idiom 「同袍同澤」. You’ll find its explanation and usage below.
Robe: a general term for long clothes; Ze: underwear. Originally used to describe soldiers’ mutual love and common hatred of the enemy. A metaphor for the relationship between working colleagues (mostly referring to soldiers). It also refers to friends with whom you have a relationship.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
tóng páo tóng zé
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
tung4 pou2 tung4 jaak6
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