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This introduction highlights the idiom 「搖頭晃腦」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Shake: shake. The head shook back and forth. Used to describe how you feel like you are having a lot of fun or think that you are not bad.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yáo tóu huǎng nǎo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yiu4 tau4 fong2 nou5

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