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The idiom being introduced now is 「東衝西決」. Below, you’ll find its meaning and usage examples.

Describes a flood that breaks through and spreads everywhere.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dōng chōng xī jué

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dung1 chung1 sai1 kyut3

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