Buy Iron and think of gold
Buy Iron and think of gold, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is m ǎ ITI ě s ī J ī n, which means unrealistic greedy delusion. It comes from one Wen Qian by Xu fuzuo of Ming Dynasty.
Idiom usage
As an object or attribute; used of greed
The origin of Idioms
Xu fuzuo's yiwenqian of Ming Dynasty is the third one: "there is a class of turbid people who love to entangle their hearts and practice blindly, hoping to ascend to heaven after death. This is to buy Iron and think of gold, and see that it will sink forever. "
Idiom explanation
It refers to unrealistic greed and delusion.
Buy Iron and think of gold
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