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Here is the Chinese idiom 「白日見鬼」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
Seeing a ghost in broad daylight. It means that the four departments of the Ministry of Works have nothing to do and are very idle. Later it generally refers to things that are strange or fabricated.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bái rì jiàn guǐ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
baak6 yat6 gin3 gwai2
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