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This introduction highlights the idiom 「神施鬼設」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Used to describe poetry as very exquisite.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shén shī guǐ shè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

san4 si1 gwai2 chit3

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