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宰予昼寝
zǎi​yǔ​zhòu​qǐn

sleep during the day

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宰予昼寝 宰予晝寢 zǎi​yǔ​zhòu​qǐn
sleep during the day
Zai Yu sleeps during the day; an idiom referring to a story from the Analects of Confucius where he scolds his student for sleeping during lectures, used to describe a person who is lazy and beyond hope
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