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Let’s learn about the idiom 「不蔓不支」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.

Man: vine, extended to mean spread. It neither spreads nor branches. It is a metaphor for speaking or writing in a concise and to the point manner, without being verbose.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bù màn bù zhī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bat1 maan6 bat1 ji1

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