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Learn about the idiom 「名正言順」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Originally it meant that one’s status was legitimate and one’s words were reasonable. The latter usually refers to doing something in a legitimate way and with a reasonable reason.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
míng zhèng yán shùn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ming4 jing3 yin4 seun6
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