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Learn about the idiom 「逍遙法外」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Xiaoyao: a leisurely and contented look. It means that people who break the law are not punished by law and remain free.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xiāo yáo fǎ wài

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

siu1 yiu4 faat3 ngoi6

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