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This introduction highlights the idiom 「惡貫已盈」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
It means that the crime is so heinous that it is time to be punished. Same as “full of evil”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
è guàn yǐ yíng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ok3 gun3 yi5 ying4
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