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The idiom 「冥思苦索」 and its usage are explored below. Learn its meaning and applications here.

Rack your brains and think hard.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

míng sī kǔ suǒ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ming4 si1 fu2 sok3

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