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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「如臨深穀」 here, with meaning and examples.

Introducing the idiom 「如臨深穀」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

It seemed as if we had reached the edge of a deep valley. A metaphor for acting with great vigilance and caution.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

rú lín shēn yù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yu4 lam4 sam1 guk1

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