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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「有板有眼」 and how it’s used.

The featured idiom 「有板有眼」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

It is a metaphor for words and actions being organized and paced.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǒu bǎn yǒu yǎn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yau5 baan2 yau5 ngaan5

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