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The featured idiom 「鷹擊毛摯」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
Strike: fight; Zhi: fierce. When a bird of prey swoops down on another animal, its feathers are spread out. A metaphor for harshness and ferocity.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yīng jī máo zhì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ying1 gik1 mou1/mou4 ji3
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