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Discover the idiom 「汙七八糟」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Describes something that is extremely messy.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yú qī bā zāo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wu1 chat1 baat3 jou1

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