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Learn about the idiom 「不可一世」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
One life: a period of time. I think that modern people are no good. Describes a person who is extremely arrogant and conceited.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bù kě yī shì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bat1 ho2 yat1 sai3
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