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We’re presenting the idiom 「引狼自衛」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
It’s like attracting a tiger to defend oneself. A metaphor for trying to rely on a bad person and ending up suffering from him.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǐn láng zì wèi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yan5 long4 ji6 wai6
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