flatter one 's superiors and show contempt for one 's subordinates(shàng chǎn xià dú)

flatter one 's superiors and show contempt for one 's subordinates

[example] Yan Qian's collection of essays Jiepi: "power is an incredible spiritual phenomenon. Power can make people have a desire to enjoy privileges and an illusion of superiority, and it is easy for people to fall into terrible and crazy egocentrism. Power means obedience and domination. The person in charge of power is especially afraid that others will offend his dignity and privilege. Therefore, he is very concerned about the hierarchy of "superiority and inferiority". His flattery and profanity show his arrogance and arrogance in contempt of Qun Lun. In this case, "reciprocity" has become the best strategy to ease and ease the tension between the upper and lower levels. "

interpretation

Flatter: flatter; blaspheme: scorn, blaspheme. Flatter superiors and despise subordinates.

source

In the book of changes, Xi CI Xia: "a gentleman should not flatter his superiors and not profane his subordinates."

usage

Used as a predicate, attribute, adverbial, etc

Chinese PinYin : shàng chǎn xià dú