Buy cheap and sell expensive

Buy cheap and sell expensive

Buy cheap sell expensive, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is m ǎ Iji à nm à IGU ì, meaning to buy at a low price and sell at a high price. From Xijing Fu.

The origin of Idioms

In the ode to Xijing written by Zhang Heng of Han Dynasty, "Er is a hundred families of merchants, a couple of peddlers." Wu Xue of the Three Kingdoms notes: "to benefit peddlers, to buy cheap and sell expensive, to benefit oneself."

Analysis of Idioms

Buy cheap and sell expensive

Antonym: buy expensive and sell cheap

Idiom usage

It refers to commercial profit-making behavior.

Examples

To do business is to buy cheap and sell expensive, otherwise it is to contribute wealth to the society.