More important people forget things

More important people forget things

It is a Chinese idiom with the Pinyin of Gu ì R é NDU ō w à ngsh ì. The explanation is that the noble are forgetful, and the noble are often forgetful. It used to mean that senior officials are arrogant and don't care about their old friends. Later it was used to satirize people's forgetfulness. It comes from Wang Dingbao's "Tang Zhiyan, Volume 2, Qi hen" in the Five Dynasties: "if you forget too many noble people, if you are in trouble, if you make your servant surprise, if you stand side by side with you, if you look at each other, if you regret and thank your servant, if you can live with you?"

Citation explanation

The noble are always forgetful. It used to mean that senior officials are arrogant and don't care about their old friends. Later it was used to satirize people's forgetfulness. The second volume of Tang Zhiyan written by Wang Dingbao in the Five Dynasties: "if you forget too many noble people, and your country's scholars are in trouble, you will be surprised, stand side by side with you, look at each other, and the public will regret and thank you. Can you make your servant more beautiful than you?" Cao Xueqin's a dream of Red Mansions in Qing Dynasty Chapter 4: you always forget a lot, where do you remember us? Chapter 6 of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty: Granny Liu walks in a wall and says with a smile, "you always forget things, where do you remember us? Li Baojia in Qing Dynasty Chapter 30: how do you always forget? It's true that there are too many noble people to forget!

Idiom story

In the Tang Dynasty, although Wang lingran was a Jinshi, he didn't give any official position. He thought about how to get into the officialdom day and night. He remembered that he had been in contact with Gao Changyu, the imperial censor, but he forgot himself when he became an official. So he wrote a letter to Gao Changyu. In the letter, he threatened that if he forgot his friends because he became a noble official, he would give them back in the future

Discrimination of words

[pinyin code]: GRDS [synonym]: expensive and forgetful [usage]: used as attribute and object; used to satirize people's forgetfulness [English]: hongourablemeneasilyforget