4 characters Idiom and proverb 9 993

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Let’s learn about the idiom 「言之過甚」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.

That’s going too far.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yán zhī guò shèn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yin4 ji1 gwo3 sam6

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