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Here’s the idiom 「打死老虎」, with its definition and practical application described below.

A metaphor for attacking someone who has lost power.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dǎ sǐ lǎo hǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

da2 sei2 lou5 fu2

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