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Discover the idiom 「置之死地」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

To intentionally put someone in a situation where they cannot survive.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhì zhī sǐ dì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ji3 ji1 sei2 dei6/dei2

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