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Introducing the idiom 「勢窮力屈」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
The situation is dire and the strength is exhausted.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shì qióng lì qū
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sai3 kung4 lik6 wat1
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