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Learn about the idiom 「前俯後仰」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

The body sways back and forth. Describes the look of being unable to straighten one’s back due to laughing so hard or being so sleepy.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qián fǔ hòu yǎng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chin4 fu2 hau6 yeung5

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