be derelict in duty and run irrelevant business

be derelict in duty and run irrelevant business

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ù w ù zh è ngy è, which means to leave one's job and do nothing else. It comes from Jin Ping Mei CI Hua.

Notes on Idioms

Service: engaged in.

The origin of Idioms

The first chapter of Jin Ping Mei CI Hua written by Xiaosheng of Lanling in the Ming Dynasty: this man is not very good at reading. He wanders all day long. After his parents died, he is not doing his job.

Idiom usage

In the derogatory sense, it refers to people who are idle and eager for ease. example at that time, they were young people who were accused of not doing their proper work, but no one knew that there was no proper work for young people in the society at that time. ——Guo Moruo's my childhood in my youth