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 「據高臨下」, with details below.
This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「據高臨下」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
To control those below by relying on one’s superior position means to control others by relying on one’s superior position.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jù gāo lín xià
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
geui3 gou1 lam4 ha6
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