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Introducing the idiom 「外厲內荏」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
Tough on the outside but weak on the inside.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wài lì nèi rěn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ngoi6 lai6 noi6 yam5
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