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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「彈雨槍林」, with details below.

We’re presenting the idiom 「彈雨槍林」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.

Bullets fell like rain and guns stood like a forest. Describes a fierce battle.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dàn yǔ qiāng lín

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

taan4/daan6 yu5 cheung1 lam4

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