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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「掉以輕心」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Drop: swing; light: rash. Take a frivolous and nonchalant attitude towards things.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

diào yǐ qīng xīn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

diu6 yi5 hing1 sam1

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