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Open the tool →天下老鸹一般黑 (tiān xià lǎo guā yī bān hēi) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “Bad people or negative phenomena are similar everywhere”.
天下老鸹一般黑 is pronounced tiān xià lǎo guā yī bān hēi in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 天下老鸹一般黑 means “Crows under heaven are all equally black”. It is used to mean “Bad people or negative phenomena are similar everywhere”.
比喻坏人坏事各地都差不多,到处都是一样黑暗