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big fish eat little fish
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big fish eat little fish

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big fish eat little fish

An idiom describing a situation where the strong dominate or destroy the weak.

vi Thương trường thường là nơi cá lớn nuốt cá bé.

en The business world is often a place where big fish eat little fish.

Parts
个𡘯𠽆个𡭬
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Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
个𡘯𠽆个𡭬
Candidates by syllable
cá 个(個 / 箇 / 𩵜) lớn 𡘯(𡚚 / 𢀬 / 𢀲 / 𣁔) nuốt 𠽆(𠾹) cá 个(個 / 箇 / 𩵜) bé 𡭬(𡮌 / 𡮣 / 𡮤 / 𡮥)
Bold marks a representative candidate assembled from per-syllable character mappings. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. It is not necessarily a source-aligned spelling for the whole word.
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