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Introducing the idiom 「由來已久」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
Origin: From the occurrence to the present. It has been a long time since this happened.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yóu lái yǐ jiǔ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yau4 loi4 yi5 gau2
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