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Introducing the idiom 「左支右調」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

Refers to prevarication.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zuǒ zhī yòu diào

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jo2 ji1 yau6 diu6

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