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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「軍臨城下」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
The enemy had come within reach of his own walls. It is a metaphor for a very critical situation.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jūn lín chéng xià
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gwan1 lam4 sing4 ha6
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