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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「貪汙狼藉」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

It means being greedy for money and accepting bribes, behaving improperly, and having a bad reputation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tān yú láng jiè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

taam1 wu1 long4 jik6

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