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Discover the idiom 「詰屈磝碻」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Describes language that is stiff and difficult to understand.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jié qū áo qiāo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

kit3 wat1 ngou4 kok3

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