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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「權移馬鹿」.

Let’s dive into the idiom 「權移馬鹿」. Its definition and application are outlined below.

It refers to relying on power to be domineering and arbitrarily confuse right and wrong.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

quán yí mǎ lù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

kyun4 yi4 ma5 luk2

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