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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「遊騎無歸」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Ranger: Cavalry that has left the team. The cavalry who left the team had nowhere to go. It is a metaphor for being separated from the roots and having no destination.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yóu qí wú guī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yau4 ke4 mou4 gwai1
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