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Today’s idiom is 「奉頭鼠竄」. We’ve outlined its meaning and practical application below.

Feng: hold in hand. Holding his head, he ran away in panic like a mouse. Describes the act of fleeing in a panic after being attacked.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fèng tóu shǔ cuàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fung6 tau4 syu2 chyun3

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