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Let’s dive into the idiom 「蹈火探湯」. Its definition and application are outlined below.
A metaphor for not avoiding difficulties. Same as “stepping into boiling water and into fire”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dǎo huǒ tàn tāng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dou6 fo2 taam3 tong1
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