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This feature highlights the idiom 「頓足搥胸」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Stamp your feet and beat your chest. Describes the look of intense emotions.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dùn zú duī xiōng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

deun6 juk1 cheui4 hung1

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