Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「倒戈卸甲」 and its explanation.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「倒戈卸甲」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
A metaphor for laying down one’s weapons and admitting defeat.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dǎo gē xiè jiǎ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dou2 gwo1 se3 gaap3
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