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好事不出门，恶事传千里
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Definitions
- 1. lit. good deeds do not go beyond the door, evil deeds spread a thousand miles
- 2. a good deed goes unnoticed, but scandal spreads fast (idiom)
Child Words of 好事不出门，恶事传千里
thousand
biography
to hate
to go out
no; not so
to be meddlesome
to go out
evil
evil deeds spread a thousand miles (idiom); scandal spreads like wildfire
good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, \a fine thing indeed\)
a thousand miles
matter
gate
malicious deed; misdeed
lining
to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
good
to pass on