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Here’s the idiom 「不禁不由」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Refers to involuntary.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bù jìn bù yóu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bat1 gam3 bat1 yau4

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