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Chinese idioms like 「排山倒海」 represent a high level of language skill. This free guide helps you learn their meaning and use.

Here’s the idiom 「排山倒海」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Push away the mountains and overturn the seas. Describes strong power and great momentum.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

pái shān dǎo hǎi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

paai4 saan1 dou2 hoi2

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