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Learn about the idiom 「老奸巨猾」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Cunning: cunning. Refers to a very insidious and cunning person.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

lǎo jiān jù huá

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

lou5 gaan1 geui6 waat6

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