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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「說短論長」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Talking about the good and bad of others.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shuō duǎn lùn zhǎng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

syut3 dyun2 leun6 cheung4/jeung2

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