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Learn about the idiom 「丟三落四」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Describes doing things carelessly, either losing this or forgetting that.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

diū sān luò sì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

diu6 saam1 lok6 sei3

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