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This introduction highlights the idiom 「人仰馬翻」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

The men and horses were knocked to the ground. Describes being badly defeated. It also refers to a mess that is out of control.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

rén yǎng mǎ fān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yan4 yeung5 ma5 faan1

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