practically sinecure office(sù cān shī wèi)

practically sinecure office

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is s ù C ā NSH ī w è I, which means to occupy a position without doing anything and eat for nothing. It comes from the book of history, the song of five sons and the theory of Qianfu, the thought of sages.

Analysis of Idioms

A simple meal

The origin of Idioms

Song of the five sons in the book of history: "Taikang's corpse is to destroy Juede with ease." In Wang Fu's Qian Fu Lun Si Xian of Han Dynasty, it is said that "if you want to eat the master's salary, you will eat the dead but be extravagant; if you want to sit down and be arrogant and extravagant, you will not be as good as those handed down from generation to generation."

Idiom usage

In Yuan Xin Wen Fang's biography of the gifted scholar of Tang Dynasty, Wang Hu: when officials entered, they all ate the dead and were afraid to surrender. Zhu Ding of Ming Dynasty: the story of yujingtai: the new pavilion is full of tears: Jiao Si's painstaking efforts should encourage himself and dare to eat the dead. Qian Nanyuan, miscellany of the roaring Pavilion by Zhao Yao of the Qing Dynasty: today's ministers are all dead, causing jackals to go up all over the country. Why not use admonishment officials?

Chinese PinYin : sù cān shī wèi