Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「退步抽身」, with details below.
Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「退步抽身」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
It means to resign from an official position and retire to one’s home.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
tuì bù chōu shēn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
teui3 bou6 chau1 san1
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