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青蝇吊客
qīng​yíng​diào​kè

having no true friends

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青蝇吊客 青蠅弔客 qīng​yíng​diào​kè
having no true friends
(idiom) used to describe someone who had no close friends in life and is only visited by flies after death; based on a historical quote by Yu Fan from the Records of the Three Kingdoms

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Antonym

  • 高朋满座 gāo​péng​mǎn​zuò