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Chinese
For pronunciation and definitions of 隔岸观火 – see 隔岸觀火 (“to watch the fires burning across the river; to delay entering the fray until all others have been exhausted by fighting amongst themselves”).
(This term is the simplified form of 隔岸觀火). |
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