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The featured idiom 「面譽背非」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
It means praising someone in person and slandering him or her behind his or her back. Same as “praise to one’s face and criticize behind one’s back”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
miàn yù bèi fēi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
min6/min2 yu6 bui3 fei1
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