ปลาเน่าตัวเดียวเหม็นทั้งข้อง

Thai

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Definitions
  • (idiom) one bad person ruins the entire community; one bad person negatively influences everyone he comes into contact with; one bad person ruins everyone who associates with him.

Etymology

Com from Thai ปลา (fish) + Thai เน่า (rotten, putrid, decayed, etc, decomposed)+ Thai ตัว (self, body, person, etc, form, classifier)+ Thai เดียว (one, sole, only, etc, single)+ Thai เหม็น (give cause to give bad smell)+ Thai ทั้ง (with, through, together with, throughout, etc, including, all)+ Thai ข้อง (fish basket).

Origin

Thai

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Gloss

fish basket

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