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Introducing the idiom 「抱頭鼠竄」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

Holding his head, he ran away in panic like a mouse. Describes the act of fleeing in a panic after being attacked.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bào tóu shǔ cuàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

pou5 tau4 syu2 chyun3

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