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Here is the Chinese idiom 「轍亂旗靡」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

掣: wheel tracks; 瞇: fall down. The ruts were out of whack and the flags were down. Describes an army’s defeat and escape.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhé luàn qí mí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chit3 lyun6 kei4 mei5

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