粵

幡faan1竿gon1燈dang1籠lung4

faan1 gon1 dang1 lung4fān gān dēng lónginferred

English

  1. former half of a sandwich pun to imply "to only reach those which are distant but ignore the close ones"; literally "the lantern on the flagpole"

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 歇後語：照遠唔照近；比喻淨係照顧關係疏遠嘅人事物，親近嘅就忽視咗

Sources: rime-cantonese, synthesized, words.hk

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