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Here’s the idiom 「俾夜作晝」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Use the night as if it were day, day and night.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bǐ yè zuò zhòu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bei2 ye6 jok3 jau3

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