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Today’s spotlight is on the Chinese idiom 「鼠偷狗盜」. You’ll find its explanation and usage below.
Running and stealing like rats and dogs. Same as “rat stealing and dog stealing”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shǔ tōu gǒu dào
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
syu2 tau1 gau2 dou6
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