he rooks everyone he can get his claws into
The Chinese idiom, y à NGU à B á m á o in pinyin, means that wild geese can pluck their hair when they fly by. It was originally described as excellent in martial arts, but later it was used to describe people who like to take advantage of it. From the story of heroes and heroines.
Analysis of Idioms
[synonym] sour, insatiable, mercenary, self-sufficient [antonym] clean and honest, clean and tidy [grammar] contraction; predicate, object, attribute; derogatory
The origin of Idioms
In Wenkang's biography of heroes and heroines of Qing Dynasty, the third time: "since he doesn't have the skill of" plucking the feathers from the wild goose ", he should go quietly. How can he tear people down?"
Idiom usage
People in the village know that the armed minister is a "wild goose" leader. If anyone wants to be a soldier under him and doesn't give him any gifts, there is no way. ——Li Cunbao's "the nineteen tombs in the mountains" points out that the price of things in the market is so high, because they were pulled out by the wild geese in turn in the middle of the purchase. In the old society, the landlords oppressed the slaves.
Chinese PinYin : yàn guò bá máo
he rooks everyone he can get his claws into
a promise is weightier than one thousand bars of gold. yī nuò qiān jīn