despise the poor and curry favour with the rich

despise the poor and curry favour with the rich

Bullying the poor and loving the rich is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is Q à P í n à if à, which means bullying the poor and loving the rich. It comes from Peidu huandai.

The origin of Idioms

In Pei Du Huan Dai written by Guan Hanqing of Yuan Dynasty, "there are those children Cao generation who dislike the poor and love the rich. They chase me poor and arrogant, chase me rich and accompany me. They are willing to sympathize with the lonely and cherish the benevolence and righteousness."

Analysis of Idioms

To rob the rich and help the poor

Idiom usage

It has a derogatory meaning. We can't cheat the poor and love the rich.