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Introducing the idiom 「狼貪鼠竊」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
As greedy as a wolf; as thieving as a rat. Often used to describe the enemy as greedy, cruel and despicable.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
láng tān shǔ qiè
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
long4 taam1 syu2 sit3
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