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Here’s the idiom 「東搖西擺」, with its definition and practical application described below.
Describes unsteady walking. A metaphor for being easily shaken and unsteady.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dōng yáo xī bǎi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dung1 yiu4 sai1 baai2
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