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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「刀頭劍首」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

A very dangerous situation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dāo tóu jiàn shǒu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dou1 tau4 gim3 sau2

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