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Introducing the idiom 「人浮於事」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
Float: exceed. Originally it meant that a person’s talents and virtues were higher than the level of salary he received. The latter refers to too many people at work or too many people and too little work.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
rén fú yú shì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yan4 fau4 yu1 si6
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