open robbery and secret theft

open robbery and secret theft

Robbery in public, theft in secret.

Idioms and allusions

[from]: Biye's Dabashan man: "what she hates most is that some villains deforest the forest and steal wood out of the mountain to sell."

Discrimination of words

Grammar: combined; used as predicate and object; with derogatory meaning.

[note]: later, it was wrongly used as stealing and robbing, which was actually wrong. Oral English is often used as "stealing in public and robbing in private".