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Introducing the idiom 「履薄臨深」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
It is a metaphor that when one is in danger, one must be extremely cautious.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
lǚ báo lín shēn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
lei5 bok6 lam4 sam1
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