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Our focus this time is on the idiom 「眾口難調」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

The original meaning is that everyone has different tastes, and it is difficult to make a meal that everyone will find delicious. It is a metaphor that it is difficult to do things to satisfy everyone.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhòng kǒu nán diào

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jung3 hau2 naan4 diu6

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