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simp孤注一掷

gu1 zyu3 jat1 zaak6gu1zhu4yi1zhi4gū zhù yī zhì

English

to stake all on one throw
(idiom) To put all someone's has in the last change (to neither success nor loss)
to risk everything on a single bet; to go all in

粵語 — Cantonese

將所有賭金一次過押落去；比喻喺危急關頭用盡所有力量同資源去博一博

Examples

公司就嚟執笠嗰陣，佢孤注一擲，研發一隻新產品。
When the company was on the brink of closing down, he went all in and developed a new product.

Sources: cc-canto, cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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