4 characters Idiom and proverb 20 535

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Here is the Chinese idiom 「無咎無譽」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Blame: fault; praise: praise, compliment. There are neither mistakes nor merits. A metaphor for average work performance.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wú jiù wú yù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

mou4 gau3 mou4 yu6

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