4 characters Idiom and proverb 2 670

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Today, we explore the idiom 「大呼小喝」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

He was shouting and yelling in a random manner, sometimes loud and sometimes low. Same as “shouting and yelling”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dà hū xiǎo hē

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

daai6 fu1 siu2 hot3

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