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Today’s spotlight is on the Chinese idiom 「望塵奔北」. You’ll find its explanation and usage below.

Describes the army’s lack of fighting spirit. Same as “collapse in despair”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wàng chén bēn běi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

mong6 chan4 ban1 bak1

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