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Here’s the idiom 「對床夜語」, with its definition and practical application described below.

The two of them talked to each other in bed at night.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

duì chuáng yè yǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

deui3 chong4 ye6 yu5

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