4 characters Idiom and proverb 22 308

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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「搗虛撇抗」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

Refers to attacking when one is weak.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dǎo xū piě kàng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dou2 heui1 pit3 kong3

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