Belittle the good
It is a Chinese idiom, pronounced y à Li á NGW é Iji à n in pinyin, which used to refer to buying common women as slaves. It comes from Volume 15 of biography of lanterns in Jingde.
The origin of Idioms
In Song Dynasty, Shi Daoyuan's Jingde Zhuandeng Lu (Volume 15), "the master said:" don't beat the good for the cheap. "
Idiom usage
It refers to forcing a good man to be a prostitute. In Sima Guang's Zizhitongjian, the eighth year of Tianfu, the king of Qi in the later Jin Dynasty, it is said that "since the emperor liezu was in charge of Wu, it is forbidden to oppress the good for the cheap."
Belittle the good
when the river rises , the boat floats high - shuǐ zhǎng chuán gāo
take advantage of an opportunity that comes one 's way - jiàn jī ér xíng
stainless in words but foul in deeds - xíng zhuó yán qīng