For the sake of public affairs(yīn gōng jiǎ sī)

For the sake of public affairs

It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is y ī ng ō ngji ǎ s ī, which means to seek personal gain through official business. It comes from the biography of Li Gu in the later Han Dynasty by Fan Ye in the Southern Song Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Li Gu Zhuan in the book of the later Han Dynasty: "acting according to the right and acting according to the wrong for public affairs."

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: faking the public for personal gain

Idiom usage

It's a predicate.

Chinese PinYin : yīn gōng jiǎ sī