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We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「東談西說」.

Here’s the idiom 「東談西說」, with its definition and practical application described below.

It means that the scope of discussion is very wide.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dōng tán xī shuō

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dung1 taam4 sai1 syut3

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