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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「攄肝瀝膽」.

Today, we explore the idiom 「攄肝瀝膽」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

It is a metaphor for meeting someone sincerely and pouring out one’s true feelings. Also describes being very loyal. Same as “to be devoted and unashamed”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

lù gān lì dǎn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

syu1 gon1 lik6 daam2

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