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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「不同戴天」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

Wear: put on the head or hold on the head. I don’t want to coexist with my enemies under the same sky. Describes extreme hatred.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bù tóng dài tiān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bat1 tung4 daai3 tin1

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