kill the hen to get the eggs

kill the hen to get the eggs

Kill the chicken to get the egg, the Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ā J ī Q ǔ D à n, which means that the greedy for immediate small benefits and damage long-term interests. From Aesop's fables, the chicken with golden eggs.

The origin of Idioms

Greek "Aesop's fable the chicken with golden eggs": a fool wants to kill the chicken and take out the gold from the chicken's belly, so as to make a fortune, but he gets nothing

Idiom usage

It's just in front of you.