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
To bathe in benevolence and righteousness - mù rén yù yì
The branch is bigger than the root - zhī dà yù běn
swarm as flies do for good or hang round as dogs do for food - yíng yíng gǒu gǒu