promote one 's private interests under the guise of serving the public

promote one 's private interests under the guise of serving the public

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ji ǎ g ō NGJ ì s ī, which means to seek private interests in the name of the public. It comes from the biography of Du ye in the history of Han Dynasty.

Idiom explanation

Leave: borrow; help: help.

The origin of Idioms

According to the biography of Du ye in the book of Han Dynasty, "Fang Jin didn't give up white in the end, but wrote Weifu in the end. He was generous with the Party of Afghanistan, and he was handsome and excluded. He reported his private affairs to the public without fear." The first fold of Chen Zhou Tan Mi written by Wu Mingshi in Yuan Dynasty: "he pretends to be a public servant, how can I do with him?"

Analysis of Idioms

It's business and selfless

Idiom usage

It has a derogatory meaning. Now there are too many tricks. Ouyang mountain's sanjiaxiang 26 song Zhuxi's Zhuzi quotations volume 136: "Taizong Zhucheng is better than Zhougong zhuguan and CAI. Just judge it by public or private. Zhou Gongquan took the Zhou family and the world as his heart, while Taizong pretended to be a duke to help his selfish desires. " Feng Menglong, Ming Dynasty, Volume 21 of the general admonition to the world: "what's the reason for you to regard me as the younger generation of benediction and the good man of hypocrisy?" Chapter 16 of qingwenkang's biography of heroes and Heroines: "the old man who was too shy to be angry, he was forced to take part in the reform by pretending to be public and helping himself." Mao Dun's shaken: "last year, I found out that he sold Japanese goods illegally. I detained him for three packages of sugar, so I hate him. Today, he's making trouble by pretending to be public for personal gain."