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Learn about the idiom 「說黃道黑」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

A metaphor for making arbitrary comments about people and things.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shuō huáng dào hēi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

syut3 wong4 dou6 hak1

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