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Let’s learn about the idiom 「殺人如麻」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.
Like hemp: as countless as tangled hemp. The number of people killed was like a tangled mess. Used to describe the number of people killed that is countless.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shā rén rú má
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
saat3 yan4 yu4 ma4
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