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The idiom being introduced now is 「跳梁小醜」. Below, you’ll find its meaning and usage examples.
Tiaoliang: jumping and leaping; clown: a derogatory term for people. A metaphor for a bad person who is rampant and causes trouble but never achieves great success.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
tiào liáng xiǎo chǒu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
tiu3 leung4 siu2 chau2
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