Cheap in but expensive out
Cheap in and expensive out, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ji à NR à Gu à ch à, meaning buy at a low price, sell at a high price. From the history of Zen.
The origin of Idioms
Fang Ruhao of Ming Dynasty wrote the first chapter of the history of Zen: "as for those who are involved in danger, sailing in the mountains, entering at a low price and leaving at a high price, and opening trade, they can think and calculate well."
Analysis of Idioms
Buy cheap and sell expensive
Idiom usage
To do business is to make money on the cheap.
Cheap in but expensive out
deduce simplicity into complexity - yǐ jiǎn yù fán
Water without source is the end without source - wú yuán zhī shuǐ,wú běn zhī mò
find spiritual sustenance in sth. - tuō wù yù xīng
be completely at a loss as in a fog - duò yún wù zhōng
take another's place by counterfeiting - mào míng dǐng tì