prize one copper as highly as one 's life
prize one copper as highly as one 's life
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ī w é NR ú m ì ng, which means to value a penny as much as one's life. It means to be extremely mean. It comes from Wu Jingzi's scholars.
Idiom usage
To act as a predicate or attributive
Analysis of Idioms
Money is like life
The origin of Idioms
The fifty second chapter of Wu Jingzi's unofficial history of scholars in Qing Dynasty: "this man has a problem. He is very mean and penniless."
Idiom explanation
Take a penny as important as life. The metaphor is extreme stinginess. The same "money is like life".
prize one copper as highly as one 's life
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