A common thief
As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is m í NZ é ID ú f ū, which means a reactionary ruler who persecutes the people and betrays their relatives. It comes from the book of history, Tai Shi Xia.
The origin of Idioms
According to the book of history, Tai Shi Xia: "if you accept it alone, Hong Wei will be your enemy." "The so-called good officials of today, the so-called civil thieves of ancient times," says Mencius
Analysis of Idioms
Bandits: bad guys who harm the people; Dufu: tyrannical, rebellious rulers.
Word usage
As a subject or object; of reactionary rulers. This dangerous and vicious thought is just opposite to the benevolence and justice theory of Confucius and Mencius orthodoxy. The first section of the first chapter of the second part of the general history of China by Fan Wenlan.
A common thief
take to farming after discarding arms - dài niú pèi dú
give mature consideration to all aspects of a question - miàn miàn jù dào
The river does not make the well - hé shuǐ bù fàn jǐng shuǐ
rack one's brains for ingenious devices - qiǎo lì míng mù