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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「血債累累」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

Blood debt: an unrevenged vengeance for murder; numerous: describes a lot. It means killing many people and committing a serious crime.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xuè zhài lèi lèi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hyut3 jaai3 leui6 leui6

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