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Learn about the idiom 「胡天胡地」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Used in a derogatory sense to describe absurd words and outrageous behavior. Same as “Hu Tian Hu Di②”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

hú tiān hú dì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wu4 tin1 wu4 dei6/dei2

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