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Learn about the idiom 「不今不古」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
It refers to something abnormal that has never happened in ancient or modern times. Originally used to mock people who have learned nothing but pretend to be weird. It is often used as a metaphor for compromise.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bù jīn bù gǔ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bat1 gam1 bat1 gu2
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