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Introducing the idiom 「狗彘不食」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

Even dogs and pigs won’t eat his meat. Used to describe a person’s extremely bad character.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gǒu zhì bù shí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gau2 ji6 bat1 sik6

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