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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「提心在口」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
My heart was in my mouth, almost jumping out. Describes fear.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
tí xīn zài kǒu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
tai4 sam1 joi6 hau2
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