拍paak3烏wu1蠅jing1

English

1. (adj.) to describe a place where the business is very quiet
2. slow, with hardly any customers; literally 'squatting flies to kill time'.
3. Business is very quiet. Hardly any customers come in, so the shop staff have nothing to do but to swat flies.; literally: to swat a flyunreviewed?

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 商鋪冇乜生意，冇乜人客，店員或老闆悶到係到拍烏蠅unreviewed?

Examples

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  沙士期間，好多舖頭都拍晒烏蠅，冇生意。

  During the SARS crisis, many shops ran a slack business, without any business.