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From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「罰不責眾」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.

Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「罰不責眾」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Punishment: punishment; responsibility: punishment; majority: the majority. It means that even if a certain behavior should be punished, it is difficult to deal with it by punishing it because many people do it.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fá bù zé zhòng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fat6 bat1 jaak3 jung3

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