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Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「以言徇物」—details below.

For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「以言徇物」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

To agree with others with words that go against one’s will.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǐ yán xùn wù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yi5 yin4 seun1 mat6

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