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Learn about the idiom 「敷衍搪塞」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Do things carelessly and just get by with it.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fū yǎn táng sāi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fu1 hin2 tong4/tong5 sak1
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