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This feature highlights the idiom 「落井下石」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
When he sees someone about to fall into a pit, instead of extending a hand to save him, he pushes him in and throws stones at him. A metaphor for taking advantage of someone when he is in danger to frame him.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
luò jǐng xià shí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
lok6 jeng2 ha6 sek6
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