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Here’s the idiom 「以書為禦」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Control the horse according to the knowledge learned from books. It is a metaphor that it is difficult to accomplish anything by sticking to dogma.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǐ shū wéi yù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yi5 syu1 wai4 yu6

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