Wool comes from sheep(yáng máo chū zài yáng shēn shàng)

Wool comes from sheep

Wool comes out of sheep is a Chinese saying, pronounced y á NGM á och ū Z à iy á ngsh à NSH à ng, which means that people give themselves benefits on the surface, but in fact, the benefits have been added to the price they pay. It comes from the Song Dynasty Shi Daoji's "Wen Wang's mother made two pieces of Xiaoxiang's merits and virtues": "in the Tang family, you can enjoy yourself at leisure, and your mother invited a monk at home. Two hundred yuan for five kinds of food, and wool for sheep. "

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Song Shi Daoji heard that Wang's mother had made two pieces of Xiaoxiang's merits: Tang Jiali's leisurely tour and his mother's invitation to a monk. Two hundred yuan for five kinds of food, and wool for sheep.

Tang Shunzhi of the Ming Dynasty wrote Gongyi · Pai: "if you borrow a little, you will give it back to the landowner in the year of harvest. As the saying goes, "wool comes from sheep."

Chapter 27 of Li Baojia's officialdom in the Qing Dynasty: "everything must be big and small, and small and nothing. The wool comes out of the sheep. When Jia comes out two more, the matter will be settled. "

In the Qing Dynasty, Li Yu's flounder: collecting profits: "it goes like this:" heroes never suffer from immediate losses. They borrow flowers to offer Buddhas for bargains. " Xiaosheng said: "wool comes from sheep."

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On the surface, people give themselves benefits, but in fact, the benefits have been added to the price they pay.

Examples

The first time: "the matchmaker makes a bad debt, the family bows down their backs, and they say thank-you to the hall. The wool comes from the sheep, and they make 800 Silver to marry brother Zhen." Chapter 59: "now that my uncle is here, we are willing to pay for the money. But as the saying goes, "the wool comes from the sheep." it's just taking the master's money to supplement his uncle. "

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