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Today, we explore the idiom 「詰屈謷牙」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

Describes sentences that are difficult and not fluent. Same as “twisty and difficult to pronounce”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jié qū áo yá

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

kit3 wat1 ngou4 nga4

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