"Give a dog a bad name and hang him" nghĩa là gì?

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'Give a dog a bad name and hang him' = nếu ai bị nói xấu, dèm pha thì người đó sẽ khó khăn, khổ sở (if a person's reputation has been besmirched then he will suffer difficulty and hardship), thành ngữ tương tự là 'he that has an ill name is half hanged'; không ưa thì dưa có giòi.

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As history shows, psychological branding has been used to devastating success in public discourse, unleashed most effectively by Lenin when he urged his comrades to “give a dog a bad name and hang him.”

We now have in Africa some leadership that treats its people with utter contempt. Citizens that criticise them are given labels of hate. Labels are the starting point to massive character assassination and whatever that follows. Give a dog a bad name and hang him.

As in the old adage, 'give a dog a bad name and hang him,' the current basic education system in Kenya is in the process of being put on the chopping board, as it had been tagged as elitist, punitive to learners and had been blamed of transforming schools into exam factories.

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