heart startled and gallbladder broken -- extremely frightened
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ī NGX ī nd à OD ǎ n, meaning fear to the extreme. It comes from Zhang Binglin's new dialects, Shiyan.
explain
Mourning: shudder. Describe fear to the extreme.
source
Zhang Binglin's "new dialect · Shiyan" Volume 1: today's people are afraid, but they are afraid.
Discrimination
Usage: used as predicate and object; used to describe extreme fear. synonym: fear
heart startled and gallbladder broken -- extremely frightened
feel sad for the loss of one 's kind - tù sǐ hú bēi
Guessing with bees and butterflies - fēng mí dié cāi