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Chinese language progresses from characters to idioms. This free guide explains the advanced idiom 「死乞百賴」 for better learning.

Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「死乞百賴」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Describes an endless entanglement. Same as “begging for nothing”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

sǐ qǐ bǎi lài

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sei2 hat1 baak3 laai6

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