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This feature highlights the idiom 「短兵相接」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Short weapons: short weapons such as swords and knives; engage: fight. Refers to close combat. A metaphor for a fierce face-to-face struggle.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
duǎn bīng xiàng jiē
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dyun2 bing1 seung2 jip3
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