sell one's soul

sell one's soul

Selling one's soul is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is ch à m à IL í NGH ú n, which means to exchange one's soul for honor, status, etc. From scholars.

The origin of Idioms

Chapter 7 of Ma Shitu's Qingjiang ZhuangGe: "they have a delusion to use this piece of paper as he Guowei's contract to sell his soul, his lifelong belief in Marxism Leninism and his mother, the Communist Party of China."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate or attributive; used to condemn. example if there are no eggs under the nest, how can we sell our souls for the sake of self-interest and ignore the survival of our country and nation. Kuang Chaoren in Wu Jingzi's the scholars' Unofficial History of Qing Dynasty not only didn't feel grateful for Mr. Ma Er who had helped him, but also slandered and ridiculed him. He completely degenerated into a beast selling his soul.