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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「不落俗套」.

Today, we explore the idiom 「不落俗套」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

Don’t follow the old format.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bù luò sú tào

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bat1 lok6 juk6 tou3

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