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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「鼠盜狗竊」 here, with meaning and examples.

We’re presenting the idiom 「鼠盜狗竊」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.

Running and stealing like rats and dogs. Same as “rat stealing and dog stealing”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shǔ dào gǒu qiè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

syu2 dou6 gau2 sit3

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