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Learn about the idiom 「瞪目結舌」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Eyes open, speechless. Describes a nervous or surprised expression.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dèng mù jié shé
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dang1 muk6 git3 sit3
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