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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「頑皮賴肉」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Refers to bad conduct, roguery and cunningness. It also refers to people with bad conduct, rogue and cunning. Same as “naughty and lazy”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wán pí lài ròu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

waan4 pei4 laai6 yuk6

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