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Introducing the idiom 「疾惡若讎」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

Hate bad people and bad things just like hating your enemies. Same as “hate evil as much as one hates it”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jí è ruò chóu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jat6 ok3 yeuk6 chau4

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