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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「昂首伸眉」, with more below.

Learn about the idiom 「昂首伸眉」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Stretch: raise. Look up and raise your eyebrows. Describes a high-spirited look.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

áng shǒu shēn méi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ngong4 sau2 san1 mei4

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