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English

1. Literally: to extort extra money from the client by slowing down the progress, pretending the task is too hard to finish. It came from the dock coolies in previous time, when dishonest coolies want more payment, they would halt the loading and sit aside tapping their shanks, imply to the client they want more money before continue. Literally: tap the shankunreviewed?

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 響工作過程中怠工、扮辛苦，希望坐地起價敲詐客户。源自舊時碼頭，唔誠實嘅苦力往往響搬運中途將貨物卸響路上，坐響地敲打自己腳瓜，以暗示工作辛苦，要客户多俾工錢先肯繼續。unreviewed?

Examples

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  政府啲工程成日超支又延遲，因為啲工程公司成日用工程難度高嚟拖時間、敲腳骨，但政府又信晒佢哋，俾完一次又一次。

  Government construction projects are often over budget and delayed because the contractors usually use high building difficulty as excuses to slow down progress and extort extra payment. However, the government just trusts them and pays the additional cost again and again.