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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「曳兵之計」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

It means pretending to be defeated and fleeing to lure the enemy into an ambush.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yè bīng zhī jì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yai5 bing1 ji1 gai3/gai2

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