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Here’s the idiom 「打雞罵狗」, with its definition and practical application described below.

It is a metaphor for using indirect insults to vent one’s dissatisfaction with someone.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dǎ jī mà gǒu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

da2 gai1 ma6 gau2

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