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Learn about the idiom 「信口開嗬」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

A metaphor for speaking carelessly. Same as “talking nonsense”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xìn kǒu kāi hē

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

seun3 hau2 hoi1 ho4

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