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Today’s spotlight is on the Chinese idiom 「暗室欺心」. You’ll find its explanation and usage below.

Doing bad things against one’s conscience in a dark room. Refers to doing bad things secretly.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

àn shì qī xīn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

am3 sat1 hei1 sam1

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