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Learn about the idiom 「羝羊觸藩」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Ram: male sheep; collide: to collide; fence: a fence. The ram’s horns were entangled in the fence, and he could not move forward or backward. A metaphor for being in a dilemma.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dī yáng chù fān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dai1 yeung4 juk1 faan4

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