兰艾同焚

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lit. to burn both fragrant orchids and stinking weeds (idiom); fig. to destroy indiscriminately the noble and common, the rain falls on the just and unjust alike

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兰艾同焚

lán ài tóng fén

Orchid and artemisia were burnt together -- good men destroyed with the bad.; impose the same destiny upon the noble and the mean alike

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蘭艾同焚|兰艾同焚 [lán ài tóng fén] ► lit. to burn both fragrant orchids and stinking weeds (idiom); fig. to destroy indiscriminately the noble and common ► the rain falls on the just and unjust alike