4 characters Idiom and proverb 3 417

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We’re presenting the idiom 「不絕如發」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.

It describes a critical situation, like a hair that is about to break.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bù jué rú fā

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bat1 jyut6 yu4 faat3

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