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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「高枕勿憂」.

Here, we present the idiom 「高枕勿憂」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.

It means to sit back and relax.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gāo zhěn wù yōu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gou1 jam2 mat6 yau1

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