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一言喪邦
yī​yán​sàng​bāng

one word can ruin a nation

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一言丧邦/ 一言喪邦 yī​yán​sàng​bāng (also yì​yán​sàng​bāng) one word can ruin a nation

A single careless or wrong statement may lead a country to ruin or disaster; from a passage in the "Analects"

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