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Here is the Chinese idiom 「威信掃地」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Prestige: prestige and credibility. All prestige and credibility are lost. A metaphor for complete loss of prestige and credibility.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wēi xìn sǎo dì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wai1 seun3 sou3 dei6

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