be servile to one 's superiors and tyrannical to one 's subordinates

be servile to one 's superiors and tyrannical to one 's subordinates

Flattery is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is ch à NSH à ngji à oxi à, which means to flatter the superior but arrogant the inferior. It comes from Han Yang Xiong's "Fa Yan · self cultivation".

The origin of Idioms

Yang Xiong of the Han Dynasty wrote in FA Yan - self cultivation: "if you don't flatter your superiors and don't arrogant your subordinates, you can do something."

Idiom usage

Every squire of this number must be flattering and arrogant, stripping and offering. The fifty first chapter of the light on the wrong road by Li Lvyuan in Qing Dynasty