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Introducing the idiom 「開路先鋒」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

A metaphor for the advance personnel who carry out a certain task.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

kāi lù xiān fēng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hoi1 lou6 sin1 fung1

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