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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 「草草收兵」, with details below.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「草草收兵」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

He withdrew his troops in a hasty manner. It is a metaphor for being irresponsible, careless, and careless at work.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

cǎo cǎo shōu bīng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chou2 chou2 sau1 bing1

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