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Introducing the idiom 「窮兵黷武」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

Poor: to exhaust; gluttonous: casually, arbitrarily. Use force at will and constantly launch wars of aggression. Describes being extremely warlike.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qióng bīng dú wǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

kung4 bing1 duk6 mou5

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