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Let’s learn about the idiom 「敵眾我寡」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.

The enemy has more people and we have fewer people. Describes a confrontation between two sides with a huge disparity in numbers.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dí zhòng wǒ guǎ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dik6 jung3 ngo5 gwa2

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