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Here is the Chinese idiom 「膽戰心慌」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Describes being extremely scared.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dǎn zhàn xīn huāng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

daam2 jin3 sam1 fong1

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