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Discover the idiom 「膏肓之疾」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Refers to an incurable terminal illness.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gāo huāng zhī jí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gou1 fong1 ji1 jat6

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