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This feature highlights the idiom 「縱虎出匣」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Let the tiger out of the cage. It is a metaphor for letting a powerful enemy go, which will cause endless trouble. Same as “letting the tiger out of the cage”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zòng hǔ chū xiá
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jung3 fu2 cheut1 haap6
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