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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「百廢鹹舉」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

It means that all the abandoned things are started again. Same as “all things are revived”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bǎi fèi jiǎn jǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

baak3 fai3 haam4 geui2

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