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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「誘敵深入」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Lure the enemy in and put it in an isolated and disadvantageous position where it can hardly escape.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yòu dí shēn rù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yau5 dik6 sam1 yap6

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