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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「泰極而否」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
When good reaches its extreme, bad will come.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
tài jí ér fǒu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
taai3 gik6 yi4 fau2
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