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托
塔
都
應
承
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Jyutping
tok3 taap3 dou1 jing1 sing4
Pinyin
tuō tǎ dōu yìng chéng
Definitions (CC-CANTO)
an expression which means 'to agree with anything asked by another, regardless of what is being asked (favour or etc.)'
Definitions (粵典–words.hk)
語句
講人乜嘢都肯應承,但係未必會做得到,多數都係得個講字
to make promises one cannot keep, to promise lightly, literally "even promise to carry a pagoda"