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瘦sau3死sei2的dik1駱lok3駝to4比bei2馬maa5大daai6

simp瘦死的骆驼比马大
sau3 sei2 dik1 lok3 to4 bei2 maa5 daai6inferredshòu sǐ de luò tuo bǐ mǎ dà

English

  1. lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom)
  2. fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people
  3. a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people

Sources: cc-cedict, synthesized

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