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To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「兩鼠鬥穴」 explained, free of charge.

Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「兩鼠鬥穴」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

It is a metaphor that when two hostile parties meet in a dangerous and narrow place, only the one who bravely advances can win.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

liǎng shǔ dòu xué

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

leung5 syu2 dau3 yut6

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