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Today’s spotlight is on the Chinese idiom 「覆巢毀卵」. You’ll find its explanation and usage below.
Fu: overturn. Nest: bird’s nest. Destroy: destroy. Ovum: egg. Overturned the bird’s nest and broke the eggs. It is a metaphor that the whole is destroyed and all its parts no longer exist. Also written as “overturn the nest and break the eggs”, “overturn the nest and dump the eggs”, and “no eggs are left intact when the nest is overturned”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fù cháo huì luǎn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fuk1 chaau4 wai2 leun2
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