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The featured idiom 「心寒膽落」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

Describes being extremely frightened. Same as “chilled and terrified”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xīn hán dǎn luò

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sam1 hon4 daam2 lok6

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