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We’re presenting the idiom 「泛濫成災」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
Water from rivers, lakes and reservoirs overflowed, causing disasters. It is a metaphor for bad articles or ideas spreading everywhere and causing extremely bad influence.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fàn làn chéng zāi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
faan4 laam6 sing4 joi1
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