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Here’s the idiom 「兵多者敗」, with its definition and practical application described below.
It refers to an army with too many soldiers, which often suffers defeat because the soldiers and generals rely on each other and the orders are inconsistent.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bīng duō zhě bài
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bing1 do1 je2 baai6
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