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笑siu3貧pan4不bat1笑siu3娼coeng1

simp笑贫不笑娼
siu3 pan4 bat1 siu3 coeng1xiào pín bù xiào chāng

English

  1. the notion in society that it's better to get ahead in the world by abandoning one's scruples than to suffer poverty
  2. lit. despising poverty but not prostitution (idiom)

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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