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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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