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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「千鈞一發」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

A metaphor for an extremely critical situation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qiān jūn yī fā

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chin1 gwan1 yat1 faat3

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