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Today’s spotlight is on the Chinese idiom 「滿盤皆輸」. You’ll find its explanation and usage below.

If you make a wrong move in chess, you lose the whole game. A metaphor for the failure of the whole due to the influence of a certain part.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

mǎn pán jiē shū

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

mun5 pun2/pun4 gaai1 syu1

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