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This feature highlights the idiom 「蹈火赴湯」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

A metaphor for not avoiding difficulties.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dǎo huǒ fù tāng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dou6 fo2 fu6 tong1

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