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Today, we explore the idiom 「傲睨得志」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

Arrogant: look sideways with arrogance. Dezhi: the wish comes true. Describes the expression of looking down on everything because of the fulfillment of one’s wish.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

ào nì dé zhì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ngou6 ngai6 dak1 ji3

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