regard as useless

regard as useless

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ì R ú t ǔ Ji è, which means to ignore. It's from Mencius, under the leaves.

Idiom usage

To show extreme contempt for

Examples

Salt merchants are rich and luxurious, and many literati and bureaucrats are dazzled when they see them. You are a weak woman, and you treat her like a mustard, which is very respectable.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: treat like grass

The origin of Idioms

Mencius · lilouxia: "if you treat your ministers like dirt, then your ministers will treat you like enemies."

Idiom explanation

Mustard: grass. As if soil, grass general cheap. Metaphors don't matter.