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好嘅唔靈醜嘅靈
  hou2 ge3 m4 leng4 cau2 ge3 leng4   jyutping
ill news is too often true; the evil always prevail | [synonym] 烏鴉嘴
[literal] Favourable predictions never come true, but the bad ones do

This expression is sometimes used to request that someone refrain from making gloomy predictions.
Idiom

Level: 4
This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
好嘅唔靈醜嘅靈

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Characters in this word:

 hou2 hou3  -  good; very; friendly; healthy; ready
 ge3 ge2  -  adjective suffix; possessive/final particle
 m4  -  not; no
 ling4 leng4  -  spirit, soul
 cau2  -  ugly; disgraceful
 ge3 ge2  -  adjective suffix; possessive/final particle
 ling4 leng4  -  spirit, soul
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