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Let’s dive into the idiom 「政出多門」. Its definition and application are outlined below.
The original meaning is that government decrees came from the followers of several ministers. It refers to the weak central leadership and decentralized state power.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhèng chū duō mén
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jing3 cheut1 do1 mun4
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