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Re: Bite the hand thats feeds you

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How to translate "bite the hand that feeds you"? (to treat someone badly who has helped you in some way)

There's no matching idiom of " bit the hand that feeds you" in Chinese, you can either use direct translation 「咬餵你嘅手/ 咬餵你的手」witch will be understood by all Cantonese / Chinese speakers, or use one of the similar idioms below:

恩將仇報 - (repay kindness with enmity) - " ungrateful"  ( an immoral act)

狗咬呂洞賓- (A dag bite a saint's hand)- "fail to recognize kind intention and act hostilely ( due to ignorance )
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