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Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「功成身退」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Body: oneself, oneself. It means to retire on one’s own after accomplishing a great feat and never make a comeback.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gōng chéng shēn tuì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gung1 sing4 san1 teui3

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