Pluck sunflower and eat jujube
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B á Ku í D à NZ à o, meaning to pluck other people's sunflower vegetables and pick other people's jujubes. It means to steal. It comes from Dugu of the Tang Dynasty and the posthumous address of Lu Chen, the Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty.
Idiom explanation
Pull out: draw out; eat: eat, feed. It means plucking other people's sunflower vegetables and picking other people's dates.
The origin of Idioms
In the Tang Dynasty, Dugu and the posthumous address of Lu Chen, the Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty and the imperial historian of Yin in Jiangling, it is said that "there are no robbers of plucking up the sunflower and eating the jujube in the whole country, but the people of Chu still sing about it today."
Idiom usage
To be greedy for small things
Analysis of Idioms
Synonyms: petty theft, sneaking
Chinese PinYin : bá kuí dàn zǎo
Pluck sunflower and eat jujube
promote to a higher office and rank. jiā guān jìn jué
gnash the teeth with angry looks. chēn mù qiè chǐ
gain victory with unstained swords. bīng wèi xuě rèn
the few are no match for the many. sān bù niù liù
be at peace at seeing peach flowers flowing away with water. liú shuǐ táo huā
Wash the snow and bear the burden. xǐ xuě bū fù