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to be content with poverty and strive for virtue (idiom)

安贫乐道
ān pín lè dào
Idiom
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Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
content with one's lot · knowing one's place安分ān fèn
Antonyms
(idiom) to do whatever one pleases为所欲为wéi suǒ yù wéito run amok (idiom); to commit outrages胡作非为hú zuò fēi wéi
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