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This feature highlights the idiom 「貧病交攻」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Poverty and disease weighed heavily on us. Same as “suffering from poverty and illness”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

pín bìng jiāo gōng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

pan4 beng6 gaau1 gung1

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