plagiarize
Pick up people's tears, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh í R é NT ì tuॸ, which means that he has no original ideas, but plagiarizes other people's opinions. It comes from Canglang's Poetry Talks: a reply to Wu Jingxian's book.
The origin of Idioms
Yan Yu of the Song Dynasty wrote in Canglang Shihua · a reply to Wu Jingxian: "it's my family who chiseled this field behind closed doors, that is to say, it's not someone who picked up people's tears and spit by the fence."
Idiom usage
It is used as predicate, object and attribute.
plagiarize
as easily as walking on firm earth - rú lǚ píng dì
treasure a thing by wrapping it up carefully - shí xí yǐ cáng
Single is easy to break, many is hard to break - dān zé yì zhé,zhòng zé nán cuī