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This feature highlights the idiom 「披肝露膽」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

It means to tell one’s heart with all one’s heart or to be loyal to the utmost. Same as “disclose the liver and gallbladder”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

pī gān lù dǎn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

pei1 gon1 lou6 daam2

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