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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「披露肝膽」.

Here’s the idiom 「披露肝膽」, with its definition and practical application described below.

It means to tell one’s heart with all one’s heart or to be loyal to the utmost.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

pī lù gān dǎn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

pei1 lou6 gon1 daam2

There’s no shortage of Chinese idioms, each offering unique meanings and ways to use them. This guide is here to assist you as you improve your understanding of the language.