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Our focus this time is on the idiom 「驚心裂膽」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.
It means to be extremely shocked and frightened. Same as “terrified”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jīng xīn liè dǎn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
geng1 sam1 lit6 daam2
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