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This introduction highlights the idiom 「連宵達旦」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

It means all night long. All night long, from dusk till dawn.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

lián xiāo dá dàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

lin4 siu1 daat6 daan3

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