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殃及池魚
  joeng1 kap6 ci4 jyu4   jyutping
  yang1 ji2 chi2 yu2   pinyin
get the innocent bystanders into trouble in a disturbance; being implicated and gotten into trouble

also . Often seen as 城門失火, 殃及池魚: a city gate on fire brings calamity to the fish in the moat.
Idiom

Level: 3
This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
殃及池魚

This word has been viewed 2412 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by bernard on 22nd Mar 2008 16:59 and last edited on 4th Nov 2009 01:23
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Characters in this word:

 joeng1  -  calamity
 kap6 gap6  -  and; with; reach; catch up with
 ci4  -  pool; pond; moat
 jyu4  -  fish

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detail 工廠旁邊住宅殃及池魚
The nearby houses were not spared when the factory caught fire.
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