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草木皆兵

Mandarin · pinyin cǎo mù jiē bīng

lit. every tree or bush an enemy soldier (idiom); fig. to panic and treat everyone as an enemy
to feel beleaguered

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3–4–1–1 · cao3 mu4 jie1 bing1

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cou2 muk6 gaai1 bing1

Cantonese word readings for 草木皆兵. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

cou2 muk6 gaai1 bing1

Pleco · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Word reading; meanings not aligned.

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(idiomatic) Describes a situation in which someone is being overly paranoid: to apprehend danger in every sound