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We’re happy to bring you free Chinese lessons. This series dives into idioms and proverbs, meaningful and practical. Today’s phrase is 「道西說東」, with its usage explained below.

Here, we present the idiom 「道西說東」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.

Refers to talking nonsense.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dào xī shuō dōng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dou6 sai1 syut3 dung1

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