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Here is the Chinese idiom 「調虎離山」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
Try to get the tiger away from its original hill. It is a metaphor for using a trick to make the opponent move away from his original place so as to take advantage of the opportunity to act.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
diào hǔ lí shān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
diu6 fu2 lei4 saan1
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