Pick up
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f ǔ sh í y ǎ ngq ǔ, which means to pick up things on the ground with your head down and pick up things on the ground with your head up. It describes that every move has a harvest. It comes from Sima Qian's Shi Ji Huo Zhi liezhuan in the Western Han Dynasty.
explain
Lower your head to pick up the things on the ground and raise your head to pick up the things on it.
source
"Shi Ji · Huo Zhi liezhuan" says: "the family is from father and brother's descendants about, you can pick it up, you can pick it up."
Pick up
clean-fingered and influential high-ranking officials - bā fǔ xún àn
with deep hatred and resentment - tòng xīn jí shǒu