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The featured idiom 「恐後爭先」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
It means being afraid of falling behind and pursuing progress.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
kǒng hòu zhēng xiān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hung2 hau6 jaang1 sin1
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