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Today, we explore the idiom 「文過其實」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

The language is exaggerated and unrealistic.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wén guò qí shí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

man4 gwo3 kei4 sat6

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