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Here’s the idiom 「多言數窮」, with its definition and practical application described below.

If you talk too much, you will make mistakes; there will always be times when you are wrong.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

duō yán shù qióng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

do1 yin4 sou2/sou3 kung4

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