Pluck sunflower and eat jujube

Pluck sunflower and eat jujube

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B á Ku í D à NZ à o, meaning to pluck other people's sunflower vegetables and pick other people's jujubes. It means to steal. It comes from Dugu of the Tang Dynasty and the posthumous address of Lu Chen, the Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty.

Idiom explanation

Pull out: draw out; eat: eat, feed. It means plucking other people's sunflower vegetables and picking other people's dates.

The origin of Idioms

In the Tang Dynasty, Dugu and the posthumous address of Lu Chen, the Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty and the imperial historian of Yin in Jiangling, it is said that "there are no robbers of plucking up the sunflower and eating the jujube in the whole country, but the people of Chu still sing about it today."

Idiom usage

To be greedy for small things

Analysis of Idioms

Synonyms: petty theft, sneaking