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This feature highlights the idiom 「賊喊捉賊」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
The thief cries “stop thief”. It is a metaphor that in order to escape themselves, bad people deliberately create chaos, divert their targets, and portray others as bad people.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zéi hǎn zhuō zéi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chaak2 haam3 juk1 chaak2
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