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Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「涸思乾慮」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

It means racking one’s brains.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

hé sī gàn lǜ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

kok3 si1 gon3 leui6

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