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Original source entry:
鼎鐺玉石 鼎铛玉石 [ding3 cheng1 yu4 shi2] /lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material/casting pearls before swine/Reference definitions and teaching material have separate provenance.
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