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The idiom 「河決魚爛」 and its usage are explored below. Learn its meaning and applications here.

It is a metaphor for things that are extremely bad and beyond recovery.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

hé jué yú làn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ho4 kyut3 yu2 laan6

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