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Here’s the idiom 「革面斂手」, with its definition and practical application described below.

It means to change from evil to good and not act arbitrarily.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gé miàn liǎn shǒu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gaak3 min6/min2 lim5 sau2

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