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爛大街

简烂大街 · 繁爛大街

Mandarin · pinyin làn dà jiē

(coll.) (of a fashion item, song etc) to be everywhere now; to be nothing special anymore; to have lost its novelty

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爛: Look up this written character
大: dà · big, great, vast, large, high
街: jiē · street, road, thoroughfare
烂: làn · rotten, spoiled, decayed

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4–4–1 · lan4 da4 jie1

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adj

commonplace and now banal

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