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Open the tool →留中不出 (liú zhōng bù chū) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to keep a proposal or matter pending without making a decision or taking action; to shelve indefinitely”.
留中不出 is pronounced liú zhōng bù chū in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 留中不出 means “kept within without issue”. It is used to mean “to keep a proposal or matter pending without making a decision or taking action; to shelve indefinitely”.
皇帝把臣下的奏章留在宫禁中,不交议也不批答