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Here’s the idiom 「強詞奪正」, with its definition and practical application described below.
It refers to making unreasonable arguments and pretending to be right when one is clearly wrong. Same as “speculate argument”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qiáng cí duó zhèng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
keung4 chi4 dyut6 jeng3/jing3
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