forget honour at the prospect of profits

forget honour at the prospect of profits

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is t ā NL ì w à ngy ì, which means greedy for money and forgetting morality. It comes from Ling Mengchu of Ming Dynasty.

Idiom usage

It refers to a person who has an eye for money

Analysis of Idioms

Synonyms: forgetting justice at the expense of profit; Antonyms: Thinking justice at the expense of profit, upholding justice and dispersing wealth

The origin of Idioms

"I'm the daughter of a good family here. I'm a concubine at Jiang Xiucai's house, and I'm not allowed to. Later, even scholar greedy, actually sold to this Zheng mother's home

Idiom explanation

He is greedy for money and forgets morality.