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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「眾喣漂山」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Blow: to blow air. Many people blowing can make a mountain float away. It is a metaphor that if too many people say bad things, it can cause great harm to a person. It also means that there is strength in numbers.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhòng xù piāo shān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jung3 heui2 piu1 saan1
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