4 characters Idiom and proverb 7 858

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Discover the idiom 「此伏彼起」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Up here, down there. Describes something that happens continuously.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

cǐ fú bǐ qǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chi2 fuk6 bei2 hei2

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