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Discover the idiom 「一步一鬼」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Every step I took was like encountering a ghost. Describes being suspicious about everything.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yī bù yī guǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat1 bou6 yat1 gwai2

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