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Here is the Chinese idiom 「尋事生非」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
Describes the intentional creation of trouble and causing disputes.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xún shì shēng fēi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
cham4 si6 saang1/sang1 fei1
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