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This feature highlights the idiom 「蛇心佛口」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
The mouth of Buddha, the heart of a snake. A metaphor for someone who speaks nicely but has a very cruel heart.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shé xīn fó kǒu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
se4 sam1 fat6 hau2
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