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This feature highlights the idiom 「有言在先」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

I have something to say. It means to say hello in advance.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǒu yán zài xiān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yau5 yin4 joi6 sin1

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