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The featured idiom 「掛一漏萬」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

Hang: hook to take, here it means to mention or mention; leak: omit. Used to describe something that is incomplete and leaves out a lot.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

guà yī lòu wàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gwa3 yat1 lau6 maan6

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