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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「收成棄敗」 and how it’s used.

This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「收成棄敗」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

He clung to those in power and despised those who were despised.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shōu chéng qì bài

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sau1 sing4 hei3 baai6

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