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Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「掩口胡盧」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Hulu: smiling face. To laugh with one’s hands covering one’s mouth, to laugh secretly, to snicker.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǎn kǒu hú lú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yim2 hau2 wu4 lou4

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