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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「無毛大蟲」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

A hairless tiger. A metaphor for something evil that is difficult to see through just from the surface.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wú máo dà chóng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

mou4 mou1/mou4 daai6 chung4

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