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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「打悶葫蘆」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

A mystery: a metaphor for words or things that are difficult to guess and puzzling. Refers to guessing about puzzling things.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dǎ mèn hú lú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

da2 mun6 wu4 lou4

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