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Tracing back to the source, a Chinese idiom, pronounced Zhu ī g ē ns ù Yu á n, means tracing back to the origin of things. From "the mayor of this city has no house to live in.".
Discrimination of words
The origin, the source and the source of poverty
Idiom usage
It refers to tracing the source.
The origin of Idioms
Xiaojian's "the mayor of this city has no house to live in": "in fact, if we trace back to the source, he is still in order to make himself more able to move into the mayor's building, instead of falling into the bad name of dismissing his predecessors."
Chinese PinYin : zhuī gēn sù yuán
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