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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「勸百諷一」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
Words that criticize the right path are far inferior to words that encourage extravagance. It was intended to warn people, but it had the opposite effect.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
quàn bǎi fěng yī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hyun3 baak3 fung3 yat1
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