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Learn about the idiom 「事與心違」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Facts are contrary to wishes. Same as “things are contrary to the original intention”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shì yǔ xīn wéi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
si6 yu5 sam1 wai4
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