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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「萬夫莫當」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

Describes someone who is very brave. Same as “courage that cannot be matched by ten thousand men”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wàn fū mò dāng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

maan6 fu1 mok6 dong3/dong1

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