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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「回天乏術」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

Turn the tide: a metaphor for great power that can change a situation that is extremely difficult to reverse; lack of method: lack of method. It is a metaphor for a situation or illness that is serious and cannot be saved.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

huí tiān fá shù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wui4 tin1 fat6 seut6

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