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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「裏談巷議」 and how it’s used.

Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「裏談巷議」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Li: village, neighbors. The discussions of people in the neighborhoods and streets. Refers to the discussion among the people.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

lǐ tán xiàng yì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

leui5 taam4 hong6/hong2 yi5

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