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欲加之罪,何患无辞

欲加之罪,何患无辞 yù jiā zhī zuì , hé huàn wú cí If you want to condemn sb, don't worry about the pretext (idiom, from Zuozhuan 左传); one can always trump up a charge against sb / Give a dog a bad name, then hang him.
欲 yù desire / appetite / passion / lust / greed
欲 yù to wish for / to desire / variant of 欲
 加 Jiā Canada (abbr. for 加拿大) / surname Jia
 加 jiā to add / (math.) plus / to increase; to augment / (used before a disyllabic verb, often after an adverb like 不, 大, 稍 etc, to indicate that the action applies to sth previously mentioned, as in 稍加改良 "make some minor improvements to (it)")
 加之 jiā zhī moreover; in addition to that
  之 zhī (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的) / him / her / it
   罪 zuì guilt / crime / fault / blame / sin
   罪 zuì variant of 罪, crime
     何 Hé surname He
     何 hé what / how / why / which / carry
      患 huàn to suffer (from illness) / to contract (a disease) / misfortune / trouble / danger / worry
       无 mó used in 南无
       无 wú not to have / no / none / not / to lack / un- / -less
        辞 cí old variant of 辞
        辞 cí to resign / to dismiss / to decline / (literary) to take leave / (archaic poetic genre) ballad / variant of 词
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