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Despise the proud

Time: 2022-01-31 04:18:35 Author: ChinaWiki.net

Despise the proud

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Q ī ngsh ì à ow ù, which means to pay no attention to worldly affairs. It's from caihaoji, palace forbidden slander.

Notes on Idioms

Light: contemptuous; World: common people; pride: arrogance; thing: people, public.

The origin of Idioms

According to Tu Long's caihaoji Gongjin shengcalumny in Ming Dynasty, "this man is proud of his literary talent."

Idiom usage

He is a bohemian and has the ambition to despise the arrogant. (Feng Menglong, Ming Dynasty, Volume 26 of warning the world)

Despise the proud


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