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Let’s dive into the idiom 「落井投石」. Its definition and application are outlined below.

A metaphor for taking advantage of someone’s time in danger to frame him.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

luò jǐng tóu shí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

lok6 jeng2 tau4 sek6

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