4 characters Idiom and proverb 19 756

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For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「喪師辱國」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

The army suffered losses and the country suffered disgrace.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

sàng shī rǔ guó

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

song1/song3 si1 yuk6 gwok3

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