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Here is the Chinese idiom 「詞窮理屈」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

It means that the reason is wrong and there is nothing to say.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

cí qióng lǐ qū

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chi4 kung4 lei5 wat1

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