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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「言出禍從」, with more below.

Learn about the idiom 「言出禍從」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

As soon as the words are spoken, disaster follows.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yán chū huò cóng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yin4 cheut1 wo6 chung4

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