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Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「三戶亡秦」, with its explanation and usage provided below.
Three households: several households; annihilate: destroy. Even though there are only a few families, they can destroy the Qin State. It is a metaphor for a just but temporarily weak force, which has the confidence to triumph over violence.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
sān hù wáng qín
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
saam1 wu6 mong4 cheun4
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