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Learn about the idiom 「話長說短」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
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The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
huà zhǎng shuō duǎn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
wa6 cheung4/jeung2 syut3 dyun2
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