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Discover the idiom 「三命而俯」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Old means that as one’s official position rises step by step, his attitude becomes more humble.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

sān mìng ér fǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

saam1 meng6 yi4 fu2

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