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We’re presenting the idiom 「獨木難支」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
A single piece of wood cannot support a tall house. It is a metaphor that one person’s power is too weak to maintain the overall situation.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dú mù nán zhī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
duk6 muk6 naan4 ji1
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