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鬼話連篇

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Mandarin · pinyin guǐ huà lián piān

to tell one lie after another (idiom)
to talk nonsense
bogus story

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鬼: guǐ · ghost; spirit of dead; devil; Kangxi radical 194; 23rd lunar mansion, determinative star θ Cancri
話: huà · speech, talk, language; dialect
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篇: piān · chapter, section, essay, article
话: huà · speech, talk, language; dialect
连: lián · join, connect; continuous; even

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3–4–2–1 · gui3 hua4 lian2 pian1

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gwai2 waa2 lin4 pin1

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(idiomatic) to talk a lot of nonsense; to tell a series of untruths

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