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The featured idiom 「捶胸頓腳」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

Expressing extreme sadness or grief.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

chuí xiōng dùn jiǎo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

cheui4 hung1 deun6 geuk3

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