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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「跌腳搥胸」.

The idiom 「跌腳搥胸」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.

He stamped the ground with his feet and hit his chest with his fists. Expresses emotions such as anger, anxiety, and sadness.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

diē jiǎo duī xiōng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dit3 geuk3 cheui4 hung1

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