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Let’s learn about the idiom 「一木難支」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.
The building is about to collapse; not a single piece of wood can hold it up. It is a metaphor that one person’s power is too weak to maintain the overall situation.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī mù nán zhī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat1 muk6 naan4 ji1
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