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This introduction highlights the idiom 「損公肥私」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
To harm public interests for the benefit of private individuals.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
sǔn gōng féi sī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
syun2 gung1 fei4 si1
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