Need Vietnamese words for English translation of VN saying

[redshift]

I found this Vietnamese saying at http://www.proverbatim.com/vietnamese/ but it was only provided as an English translation. I would deeply appreciate the Vietnamese words for this saying: "The army is the poison and the people are the water in which the poison is mixed."
Thank you!

[english-learner]

I found this Vietnamese saying at http://www.proverbatim.com/vietnamese/ but it was only provided as an English translation. I would deeply appreciate the Vietnamese words for this saying: "The army is the poison and the people are the water in which the poison is mixed."
Thank you!

Your question is very interesting!

I'm a Vietnamese but I have never heard this saying. Anyway, I know a saying which was very common in the southern Vietnam, in Viet Nam civil war: "Quân và dân như cá với nước" the saying means that "the army and the people are like water and fish" or " the army is fish and the people is water in which fish can swim". You can look up a dictionary and understand

[vietnamese4u]

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