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Here is the Chinese idiom 「從風而靡」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
It means that like the wind blowing the grass, the grass falls down with the wind. ① It is a metaphor for the disparity between the strong and the weak, where the weak cannot withstand a single blow and collapses immediately. ② A metaphor for the speed of imitation and popularity.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
cóng fēng ér mí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chung4 fung1 yi4 mei5
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