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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「捶胸跌足」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.
Expressing extreme sadness or grief.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
chuí xiōng diē zú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
cheui4 hung1 dit3 juk1
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