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Learn about the idiom 「張眉努目」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Raised eyebrows, glared. A metaphor for being rough and shallow.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhāng méi nǔ mù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jeung1 mei4 nou5 muk6

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