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Learn about the idiom 「唇焦口燥」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Burnt: dry. Describes dry lips caused by talking too much.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

chún jiāo kǒu zào

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

seun4 jiu1 hau2 chou3

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