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Discover the idiom 「指東說西」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
①See “Pointing east and talking west”. ②It’s like speaking indirectly about something.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhǐ dōng shuō xī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ji2 dung1 syut3 sai1
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