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Today, we explore the idiom 「無可救藥」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

Medicine: Treatment. The disease has become so serious that it cannot be cured by medicine. The metaphor has reached the point of no return.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wú kě jiù yào

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

mou4 ho2 gau3 yeuk6

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