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This feature highlights the idiom 「槌胸蹋地」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Beating the chest and stamping the feet. Expressing extreme sorrow or regret.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

chuí xiōng tà dì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

cheui2 hung1 taap3 dei6/dei2

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