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In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「相顧失色」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.
Gu: look; Shi Se: change one’s face color due to fright. You looked at me, I looked at you, and our faces changed with fear.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xiàng gù shī sè
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
seung2 gu3 sat1 sik1
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