拍烏蠅

Chinese

		to clap; to pat; to beat to clap; to pat; to beat; to hit; to slap; to take (a picture)	housefly
trad. (拍烏蠅)		拍	烏蠅
simp. (拍乌蝇)		拍	乌蝇

拍⫽烏蠅 (verb-object) (Cantonese)

(literally) to swat flies (with a flyswatter)
(figurative, of business, traffic, etc.) to be slack (to the extent that clerks can only swat flies in the shop); to be sluggish; to be quiet

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