粵

濫laam5竽jyu1充cung1數sou3

simp滥竽充数
laam5 jyu1 cung1 sou3laam6 jyu1 cung1 sou3laam6 jyu4 cung1 sou3làn yú chōng shù

English

  1. lit. to play the yu 竽 mouth organ to make up numbers (idiom); fig. to make up the numbers with inferior products
  2. to masquerade as having an ability
  3. token member of a group
  4. to be there just to meet the quota (used to describe incompetent people or inferior goods)

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 比喻冇真才實學嘅人或者冇真材實料嘅事物，喺度冒充為湊數

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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