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Learn about the idiom 「含牙帶角」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Having teeth and horns, used to describe animals. Same as “holding teeth and wearing horns”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

hán yá dài jiǎo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ham4 nga4 daai3/daai2 gok3

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