Stealing chicken does not eat rice(tōu jī bù zhe shí bǎ mǐ)

Stealing chicken does not eat rice

It is a common saying that stealing chicken does not eat rice. Erosion: loss. Instead of stealing, the chicken lost a handful of rice. It's a metaphor for trying to take advantage but losing.

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T ō UJ ī B ù zh á OSH í B ǎ m ǐ: as the saying goes. Erosion: loss. Instead of stealing, the chicken lost a handful of rice. It's a metaphor for trying to take advantage but losing. (source) Chapter 25 of the complete biography of Shuoyue written by Qian Cai in Qing Dynasty: "this boatman is so unlucky, but it's not that he can't steal a chicken, but he broke a handful of rice?" Try to replace a non-linear to end up in the series

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We went for nothing. That's it. (a trainee by Ye Shengtao)

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