Harvest and discard defeat
As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is sh ō uch é ngq ì B à I, which means to follow the powerful and despise the demoted. It comes from Lun Heng Zi Ji by Wang Chong of Han Dynasty.
Idiom usage
To refer to a villain
The origin of Idioms
In Wang Chong's Lun Heng Zi Ji of Han Dynasty, it is said that "the vulgarity is greedy to advance and then retreat, and the harvest is abandoned."
Idiom explanation
He who is in favor of the powerful despises the demoted.
Harvest and discard defeat
an unexpected or undeserved gain - tǎng lái zhī wù
destroy evils before they become apparent - dù xī fāng wēi
withdraw from society and live in solitude - bì shì jué sú