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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「室怒市色」 and how it’s used.

Let’s learn about the idiom 「室怒市色」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.

Room: home; City: refers to outside; Color: facial expression. It means being angry at home and taking it out on others outside.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shì nù shì sè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sat1 nou6 si5 sik1

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