Buy the king and get the sheep
Buy Wang Deyang, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is m ǎ IW á NGD é y á ng, which means that you want to buy Wang Xianzhi's character, but you get Yang Xin's, which means that it is not so good; it means that the calligraphy and painting imitated by celebrities are lifelike but not so good. From shuduan.
The origin of Idioms
Zhang Huaijin's shuduan in the Tang Dynasty: "when people said:" if you buy a king and get a sheep, you won't be disappointed. "
Idiom usage
As an object or attribute; used in figurative sentences.
Examples
Or Yun Zhao book has defect pen, Yu Zizhi hand. Gol, the so-called buy the king get the sheep's ear. Wang Shizhen's ten jueju poems and paintings postscript in Ming Dynasty
Buy the king and get the sheep
Craftsmen abandon their talents - jiàng mén qì cái
The east wind shoots at the ear - dōng fēng shè mǎ ěr
Destroy orchid and turn jade into jade - cuī lán zhé yù