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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「好佚惡勞」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

He covets comfort and hates labor. Same as “love leisure and hate work”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

hǎo yì è láo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hou2 yat6 ok3 lou4

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