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Let’s learn about the idiom 「以力服人」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.

Power: authority, force. Use force to make people obey.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǐ lì fú rén

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yi5 lik6 fuk6 yan4

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