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Here is the Chinese idiom 「灰軀糜骨」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

It means to be torn into pieces. A metaphor for losing one’s life for a certain purpose or due to some danger.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

huī qū mí gǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fui1 keui1 mei4 gwat1

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