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Our focus this time is on the idiom 「勞民費財」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.
It not only makes the people work hard, but also wastes money. It now also refers to the abuse of human and material resources. Also written as “a waste of manpower and money”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
láo mín fèi cái
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
lou4 man4 fai3 choi4
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