idiom > chomp to slap one's chest--an expression of distress or indignation
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Cutting pat heart
  Explanation: Teeth lamented. Appearance of extreme hate.
  Source: "Warring Yan policy III" Fan in favor distraught and into said of 'The Hill Cutting pat heart day and night. '"
Also as "Cutting rot heart"
  Also as "Cutting rot heart."
   Teeth lamented. Appearance of extreme hate. "Warring Yan policy 3": "Fan in favor of becoming a member of the Progressive said: 'This minister Cutting pat heart day and night.'" "Historical Legends of Assassins" cited for "Cutting rot heart." The conception of "reading magazines Records 5": "quoted the saying: decay time for the pat." Ya, "said: the provision of, pat heart. GUO Note that the thoracic vertebrae also." Yan policy "is for 'pat heart'." "East Zhou," Ninth seven times: "Let's expedition asked in the Xu Jia said: 'Xi I kings, and Wei Fa Song with soldiers, both places congenial. and disabled people off Qi Yan, Wei and Yan real. read kings of Gua Ren Qiu, Cutting rotten heart! '"
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No. 3
  qiè chǐ fǔ xīn
  〖解释〗咬牙捶胸。极端痛恨的样子。
  〖出处〗《战国策·燕策三》:“樊於期偏袒扼腕而进曰:‘此臣日夜切齿拊心也。’”
  〖示例〗此月五日,被驿使追命骑还朝,~,辄已钟疾,虽百口在都,一非所顾。 ★南朝·梁·沈约《宋书·萧思话传》