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Here is the Chinese idiom 「想入非非」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Fei Fei: Originally a Buddhist term, it means an illusory state. I thought of a very mysterious and unreal place. Describes the act of having wild thoughts that are completely detached from reality.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xiǎng rù fēi fēi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

seung2 yap6 fei1 fei1

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