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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「一哄而起」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Without careful preparation and strict organization, they took action all of a sudden.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yī hǒng ér qǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat1 hung3 yi4 hei2

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