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Today’s spotlight is on the Chinese idiom 「貧病交加」. You’ll find its explanation and usage below.

Poverty and disease weighed heavily on us.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

pín bìng jiāo jiā

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

pan4 beng6 gaau1 ga1

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