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In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「禍從天降」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.

Down: fall. A metaphor for sudden and unexpected disaster.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

huò cóng tiān jiàng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wo6 chung4 tin1 gong3

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