Haggle over every penny(jì jiào zī zhū)

Haggle over every penny

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ì Ji à oz ī zh ū, which means to fight for money and profit, even a tiny amount. It comes from the family precepts of the Yan family.

The origin of Idioms

Yan Zhitui's "Yan Family Precepts · governing the family" in the Northern Qi Dynasty says: "in modern times, when people marry, they sell their daughters to accept money, buy their wives to lose silk, compare their fathers and ancestors, and haggle over the cost. They have more responsibilities but less responsibilities, which is no different from the common people."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate or attributive. example the pleasure boat brothel is particularly profitable, with no intention of haggling. On the poem "flower boat" in Qing Dynasty

Chinese PinYin : jì jiào zī zhū