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Learn about the idiom 「窮途潦倒」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Down and out: frustrated. Describes a situation where there is no way out and one is extremely frustrated. Same as “poor and miserable”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qióng tú liáo dǎo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
kung4 tou4 liu2 dou2
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