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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「自取咎戾」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
It means to bring trouble upon oneself. Same as “bringing trouble upon oneself”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zì qǔ jiù lì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ji6 cheui2 gau3 leui6
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