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Learn about the idiom 「貴不期驕」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

It means that even though the nobles do not want to develop the habit of arrogance and tyranny, it still grows up unconsciously.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

guì bù qī jiāo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gwai3 bat1 kei4 giu1

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