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Let’s dive into the idiom 「過甚其詞」. Its definition and application are outlined below.
Ci: words, speech; sh: exceed. It means that the words are exaggerated and do not conform to the actual situation.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
guò shèn qí cí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gwo3 sam6 kei4 chi4
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