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This introduction highlights the idiom 「傷筋動骨」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

This refers to being seriously injured. Later it is used to describe something that has suffered serious damage.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shāng jīn dòng gǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

seung1 gan1 dung6 gwat1

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