Study Chinese without cost! Idioms and sayings are at its heart. Here’s the meaning and use of 「縮頭縮腦」.

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Here’s the idiom 「縮頭縮腦」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Describes being afraid to move forward, or being timid and not willing to take responsibility.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

suō tóu suō nǎo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

suk1 tau4 suk1 nou5

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