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飛fei1上soeng5枝kei4頭tau4變bin3鳳fung6凰wong4

fei1 soeng5 kei4 tau4 bin3 fung6 wong4fei1 soeng5 zi1 tau4 bin3 fung6 wong4fēi shàng zhī tóu biàn fèng huánginferred

English

  1. to be a Cinderella; literally: to fly up to the branch and become a Chinese phoenix

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 女性喺嫁到個高貴嘅老公之後，身份亦都跟住提升；出自明末吳偉業嘅《圓圓曲》

Sources: rime-cantonese, synthesized, words.hk

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