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This feature highlights the idiom 「感遇忘身」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Be grateful for the favor; be willing to sacrifice one’s life in return. In the old days, this was a cliché used by scholars and officials to express their gratitude and loyalty to the emperor.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
gǎn yù wàng shēn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gam2 yu6 mong4 san1
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