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The featured idiom 「明恥教戰」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

Teach soldiers how to fight, let them know that retreat is a shame, so they can bravely move forward, kill the enemy and win.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

míng chǐ jiāo zhàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ming4 chi2 gaau3 jin3

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