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This feature highlights the idiom 「野馬無韁」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

A wild horse without a bridle. A metaphor for acting arbitrarily and without restraint.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yě mǎ wú jiāng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ye5 ma5 mou4 geung1

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