heart startled and gallbladder broken -- extremely frightened

heart startled and gallbladder broken -- extremely frightened

It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is j ī NGX ī NLI è D ǎ n, which means that you are shocked and scared. From midnight.

The origin of Idioms

"It has been two or three days since he came to Shanghai," said Mao Dun in midnight. "However, his fear in the front-line artillery fire and his misgivings and grievances at that time when he was captured by the enemy have not completely faded from his meninges."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate, attributive, or object; used in fear.