4 characters Idiom and proverb 4 913

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Introducing the idiom 「毛手毛腳」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

Being careless and not meticulous in doing things.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

máo shǒu máo jiǎo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

mou1/mou4 sau2 mou4 geuk3

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