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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「豎起脊梁」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

A metaphor for cheering up.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shù qǐ jǐ liáng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

syu6 hei2 jik3 leung4

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