Jiàndào tā, wǒ xīnli xiàng chuāi le zhī xiǎolù, luàn tiào ge bùtíng.
When I saw him, my heart fluttered like a little deer leaping inside me.
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心里揣只小鹿乱撞 ('a little deer leaping wildly in my heart') is the standard Chinese idiom for nervous heart-pounding - usually a crush or stage fright. The image is so fixed that 'small deer' alone can evoke that fluttery feeling in modern song lyrics and TV titles.
