"it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "For all this, however, poor Tom smarted in the flesh; for though Thwackum had been inhibited to exercise his arm on the foregoing account, yet, as the proverb says, It is easy to find a stick, &c. So was it easy to find a rod; and, indeed, the not being able to find one was the only thing which could have kept Thwackum any long time from chastising poor Jones.",
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          "word": "欲加之罪，何患無辭"
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