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The featured idiom 「隱然敵國」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
Enemy country: equivalent to a country. Refers to people who play a vital role in the country. Same as “hidden like an enemy country”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǐn rán dí guó
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yan2 yin4 dik6 gwok3
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