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Here’s the idiom 「泛泛之談」, with its definition and practical application described below.

General: superficial and not profound. Talk in general terms.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fàn fàn zhī tán

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

faan6 faan6 ji1 taam4

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