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Learn about the idiom 「平地風波」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

A storm arose on flat ground. A metaphor for a sudden and unexpected dispute or accident.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

píng dì fēng bō

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ping4 dei6 fung1 bo1

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