Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「公報私讎」—details below.
In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「公報私讎」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.
To use official business as a pretext to settle personal grudges. Same as “taking personal revenge for personal gain”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
gōng bào sī chóu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gung1 bou3 si1 chau4
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