despise the poor and curry favour with the rich

despise the poor and curry favour with the rich

Dislike poverty, Chinese idiom, pronunciation is Xi á NP í n à if à, refers to the likes and dislikes of people, according to the rich and poor. It's from Peidu huandai.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: deceiving the poor and loving the rich; [antonym]: robbing the rich and helping the poor

Idiom usage

There are robbers who are ungrateful, and there are robbers who dislike the poor and love the rich. The 58th chapter of Jing Hua Yuan by Li Ruzhen in Qing Dynasty

The origin of Idioms

The second part of Pei Du Huan Dai written by Guan Hanqing in Yuan Dynasty: "there are those children Cao generation who dislike the poor and love the rich, who chase me poor and arrogant, who pursue him rich, who are willing to sympathize with the lonely, who are willing to keep benevolence and righteousness."