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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「以卵敵石」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Using an egg to stop a stone is a metaphor for overestimating one’s own abilities.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǐ luǎn dí shí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yi5 leun2 dik6 sek6
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