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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「七擔八挪」 and how it’s used.

Introducing the idiom 「七擔八挪」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

Refers to repeated delays and procrastination.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qī dān bā nuó

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chat1 daam1 baat3 no4

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