money can move the gods

money can move the gods

Qian Ke Tong Shen, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Qi á NK ě t ō ngsh é n, which means that even ghosts and gods can be bought with money. It's a metaphor for the magic of money. From leisure preaching.

The origin of Idioms

Zhang Gu's "leisurely preaching" in the Tang Dynasty, Volume 52: "Qian Wan Wan can communicate with God, and everything that can't be returned. I'm afraid of disaster, so I have to stop it."

Idiom usage

The first is forty, and the second is the secretary. From the public to the criminal, the law is difficult to govern you. (Yuanyang quilt by Wu Mingshi, Yuan Dynasty, Part 4)

Analysis of Idioms

Money makes the devil push the mill