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Chinese study involves characters, phrases, and idioms. This resource introduces 「以肉去蟻」 as part of advanced learning. Explanation below.

Discover the idiom 「以肉去蟻」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Use meat to drive away ants, and there will be more ants. The metaphorical behavior and purpose are contradictory and can only lead to opposite results.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǐ ròu qù yǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yi5 yuk6 heui3 ngai5

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