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Introducing the idiom 「金吾不禁」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
It originally refers to the Lantern Festival and the days before and after in ancient times, when people would watch lanterns all night long and local officials would lift the curfew. Later, it also generally refers to the absence of curfew and free entry and exit at all night.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jīn wú bù jìn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gam1 ng4 bat1 gam3
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