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破财消灾
pò​cái​xiāo​zāi

to lose money to avoid disaster

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
破财消灾 破財消災 pò​cái​xiāo​zāi
to lose money to avoid disaster
To suffer a financial loss in order to escape or prevent a greater misfortune; often used to comfort someone who has lost money by suggesting the loss has replaced a worse fate.

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