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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「疾言倨色」 here, with meaning and examples.

The featured idiom 「疾言倨色」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

Describes the facial expression when talking to someone angrily. Same as “speaking quickly and with a hasty expression”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jí yán jù sè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jat6 yin4 geui3 sik1

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