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Learn about the idiom 「杜口絕言」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

It’s like keeping silent.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dù kǒu jué yán

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dou6 hau2 jyut6 yin4

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