cling to sb. when needed and abandon him when no longer needed

cling to sb. when needed and abandon him when no longer needed

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ī f ù B ǎ oy á ng, which means to attach when you don't succeed, and then fly away when you succeed. It comes from the biography of Lu Bu in the book of the later Han Dynasty by Fan Ye of the Southern Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

For example, in raising eagles, hunger is for use, and satiety is for going. Fan Ye's biography of Lu Bu in the later Han Dynasty

Idiom usage

Man Shaoqing was hungry and full, Jiao Wenji was born and died. Ling Mengchu, Ming Dynasty (Volume 11)

Idiom story

During the northern and Southern Dynasties, murongchui, the son of the former king of Yan, went to the pro king of Qin Fu Jian because he was rejected. Fu Jian welcomed him very ceremoniously. The Prime Minister Wang Meng thinks that murongchui has great talent, so he should be killed. Fu Jian didn't listen. Quan Yi thinks that murongchui is a hungry eagle. When he is full, he will leave. Later, murongchui became the first monarch of Houyan.