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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「龜冷支床」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

It is a metaphor for unfulfilled ambitions and waiting for the right time.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

guī lěng zhī chuáng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gwai1 laang5 ji1 chong4

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