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This feature highlights the idiom 「天地誅戮」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

It’s like being punished by heaven and destroyed by earth. A metaphor for being unacceptable to heaven and earth. Same as “destruction by heaven and earth”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tiān dì zhū lù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tin1 dei6/dei2 jyu1 luk6

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