people care for nothing but lust
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is R é NY ù h é ngli ú, which means that the social atmosphere is corrupt, people indulge their desires, regardless of moral justice. From quotations.
Idiom usage
If the social atmosphere is bad, it will make people want to cross the river, and it will never stop. (Chapter 22 of benevolence by Tan Sitong in Qing Dynasty)
The origin of Idioms
In Lu Jiuyuan's quotations of the Song Dynasty, it is said: "later generations don't know how to learn, and people want to cross the stream. Do they know that heaven's position is not for the king?"
Chinese PinYin : rén yù héng liú
people care for nothing but lust
raise one 's head and crane one 's neck. qiáo zú yǐn lǐng
get the opposite of what one wants. yù yì fǎn bì
If you plant a melon, you get a melon. zhòng guā dé guā,zhòng dòu dé dòu
Put aside one's sleeves to save money. bài xiù què jīn
behaving stealthily like a thief. zéi tóu shǔ nǎo