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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「營蠅斐錦」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

It is a metaphor for a slanderer who confuses right and wrong, slanders and frames others.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yíng yíng fěi jǐn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ying4 ying1/ying4 fei2 gam2

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