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Let’s learn about the idiom 「自食其果」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.

It means that one has done something bad and has been harmed or punished.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zì shí qí guǒ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ji6 sik6 kei4 gwo2

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