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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「從天而降」, with details below.

The featured idiom 「從天而降」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

Descend: fall. A metaphor for something that happens unexpectedly and suddenly.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

cóng tiān ér jiàng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chung4 tin1 yi4 gong3

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