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愈
Cantonese Slang
💡 Tip: [[the more]]
Definitions
  1. 1 [[the more]]
  2. 2 yuht kùhng yuht gin gwái 愈窮愈見鬼 — the poorer one is, the more ghosts one sees; the poorer one is, the more misfortunes one has
Other Readings
愈
even more | to recover | to surpass | better | # adapted from cc-cedict | to exc
Words containing 愈
愈加
all the more; even more; further
愈幫愈忙
more help is more interference | also 幫倒忙
愈早愈好
the earlier the better
愈演愈烈
to become ever more violent ; to grow in intensity ; increasingly fierce
每況愈下
steadily deteriorate; get worse continually; go from bad to worse
愈窮愈見鬼
bad luck comes in threes [colloquial]
愈來愈
more and more
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