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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「同舟敵國」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.
People who were in the same boat became enemies.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
tóng zhōu dí guó
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
tung4 jau1 dik6 gwok3
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