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Here, we present the idiom 「心寒膽戰」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.

Describes being extremely frightened.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xīn hán dǎn zhàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sam1 hon4 daam2 jin3

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