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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「鳥散魚潰」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Collapse: collapse. The elephants are startled and fly away, and the elephants are scattered and fled. Describes an army that is frightened and scatters in all directions.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
niǎo sàn yú kuì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
niu5 saan2 yu2 kui2
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