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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「昂頭天外」 and its explanation.

Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「昂頭天外」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Ang: lift up. Look up at the horizon. Describes an arrogant attitude or unrealistic behavior.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

áng tóu tiān wài

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ngong4 tau4 tin1 ngoi6

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