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Here is the Chinese idiom 「月滿則虧」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

The moon waxes and wanes. It is a metaphor that when things develop to their extreme they begin to decline.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yuè mǎn zé kuī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yut6 mun5 jak1 kwai1

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