clients , old and new
Old rain new knowledge, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ji ù y ǔ x ī nzh ī, meaning old acquaintance and new friend. From yangwuzhaiji qiaochuan re disease.
The origin of Idioms
Liu Jiangsun's yangwuzhaiji qiaochuan disease again in Yuan Dynasty: "new knowledge of what pulse, old rain how long."
Idiom usage
For ten years, I have not stepped on the soft red earth, but I have learned from the old rain and the new, and I have been walking on the crisscross Road, and the banquet is almost empty. The record of Daoxian official sea by Zhang Jixin in Qing Dynasty
clients , old and new
try fair means before resorting to force - xiān lǐ hòu bīng
horses and oxen kept in the same stable - niú jì tóng zào
punish one 's own relations in the cause of justice - dà yì miè qīn
the few are no match for the many - sì bù niù liù