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Learn about the idiom 「以卵擊石」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Use the egg to hit the stone. A metaphor for not estimating one’s own strength and bringing about one’s own destruction.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǐ luǎn jī shí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yi5 leun2 gik1 sek6
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