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This feature highlights the idiom 「一以當十」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
When: quite. One man against ten. Describes an army’s bravery and fighting skills.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī yǐ dāng shí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat1 yi5 dong3/dong1 sap6
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