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Chinese idioms like 「虎口拔牙」 represent a high level of language skill. This free guide helps you learn their meaning and use.

Discover the idiom 「虎口拔牙」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

A metaphor for doing something very dangerous.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

hǔ kǒu bá yá

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fu2 hau2 bat6 nga4

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