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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「高下在手」 here, with meaning and examples.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「高下在手」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

It means to do both things. A metaphor for playing tricks and colluding to cheat. Same as “higher and lower one’s hand”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gāo xià zài shǒu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gou1 ha6 joi6 sau2

There’s no shortage of Chinese idioms, each offering unique meanings and ways to use them. This guide is here to assist you as you improve your understanding of the language.