4 characters Idiom and proverb 17 860

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The idiom 「掀天動地」 and its usage are explored below. Learn its meaning and applications here.

Describes a very huge momentum, or a huge and thorough change. Same as “exposing the heavens and the earth”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xiān tiān dòng dì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hin1 tin1 dung6 dei6/dei2

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