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Today, we explore the idiom 「拖天掃地」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

Used to describe clothes that are too long.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tuō tiān sǎo dì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

to1 tin1 sou3 dei6

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