get the chicken and lose the sheep
As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is "zh ē n ɡ J ī sh ī y á n ɡ", which means to compare greed with greed. From Yi Lin.
The origin of Idioms
Jiao Yanshou's Yilin of the Han Dynasty, Volume 8: "competing for the best, losing the best."
Idiom usage
It refers to the loss of great things from small things.
Chinese PinYin : zhēng jī shī yáng
get the chicken and lose the sheep
There are no people here, there will be places for them. cǐ chǔ bù liú rén,huì yǒu liú rén chǔ
to hold on to one job while seeking a better one. qí mǎ xún mǎ