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This feature highlights the idiom 「觸石決木」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

A metaphor for acting rashly.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

chù shí jué mù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

juk1 sek6 kyut3 muk6

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