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Here is the Chinese idiom 「心懷忐忑」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Looking uneasy. It means being unable to feel at ease due to guilty conscience or anxiety.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xīn huái tǎn tè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sam1 waai4 taan2 tik1

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