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Here is the Chinese idiom 「告老還鄉」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

He resigned when he was old and returned to his hometown.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gào lǎo hái xiāng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gou3 lou5 waan4 heung1

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