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Here’s the idiom 「江翻海倒」, with its definition and practical application described below.

The river is boiling like the sea. Describes the vast power of water. It is often used to describe the growth of power or momentum.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiāng fān hǎi dǎo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gong1 faan1 hoi2 dou2

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