he rooks everyone he can get his claws into
This idiom comes from the biography of heroes and heroines. It refers to the excellent martial arts, and it also refers to getting some benefits by handling affairs.
(1) it refers to the high level of martial arts. ② It's a metaphor for making a profit by doing things. [source] the third time in the biography of children's Heroes: "since he doesn't have the skill of" plucking the feathers from the wild goose ", he should go quietly, how to tear down others." [example] people in the village know that the armed minister is the leader of the army. If anyone wants to be a soldier under him and doesn't give him any gifts, there is no way. The nineteen tombs in the mountains by Li Cunbao
he rooks everyone he can get his claws into
in boiling broth , one burnt his whiskers -- love for one 's brother and sister - zhǔ zhōu fén xū
cook the crane for meat and burn a stringed instrument for fuel -- destroy sth. valuable or fine - zhǔ hè shāo qín