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This feature highlights the idiom 「鋪張揚厲」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Originally it meant to try hard to elaborate and exaggerate, striving to carry forward and promote something. The latter is often used to describe someone who is overly particular about ostentation.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
pū zhāng yáng lì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
pou1/pou3 jeung1 yeung4 lai6
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