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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「登高履危」 here, with meaning and examples.

Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「登高履危」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

A metaphor for being extremely nervous and fearful.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dēng gāo lǚ wēi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dang1 gou1 lei5 ngai4

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