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This introduction highlights the idiom 「棘地荊天」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

There are thorns everywhere. Describes the dilapidated scene or difficult situation after a disaster.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jí dì jīng tiān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

kik1/gik1 dei6/dei2 ging1 tin1

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