住牛棚
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to be locked up in a makeshift detention place
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Idiom惯用语 · Rarely used now
- Literally
- live in a cowshed
- Meaning
- To be locked up in a makeshift detention place, as many intellectuals were during the Cultural Revolution. Historical term.
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