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Introducing the idiom 「隨時施宜」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

Take appropriate measures based on the circumstances. Same as “adapt to circumstances at any time”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

suí shí shī yí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

cheui4 si4 si1 yi4

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