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Visit prostitutes and seek pleasure. Same as “buying laughs and pursuing pleasure”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

mǎi xiào xún huān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

maai5 siu3 cham4 fun1

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