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Today’s idiom is 「齏身粉骨」. We’ve outlined its meaning and practical application below.

It means to be torn into pieces.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jī shēn fěn gǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jai1 san1 fan2 gwat1

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