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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「玩歲愒時」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

It refers to pursuing comfort and wasting time. Same as “enjoy the year and waste the days”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wán suì kài shí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

waan2 seui3 koi3 si4

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