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Here’s the idiom 「吐剛茹柔」, with its definition and practical application described below.
Soft: soft; hard: hard. Spit out the hard stuff and eat the soft stuff. A metaphor for being afraid of the strong bullying the weak.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
tǔ gāng rú róu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
tou3 gong1 yu4 yau4
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