navel-gazing: 静思，沾沾自喜的自我专注，纸上谈兵
Amid so much shellacked navel-gazing, there was little that resonated emotionally.
She dismisses the reform process as an exercise in collective navel gazing.
hen-pecked: 惧内
He is a hen-pecked husband and his wife wears the trousers on all the matters.
penny-wise：省小钱的，惜分文的；
pound-foolish：大事糊涂的，省小钱吃大亏的；
Are people from Shanghai generally "penny-wise but pound-foolish" (精明而不聪明), and arrogant toward people from other parts of the country?
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