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get the chicken and lose the sheep

Time: 2022-01-31 09:16:01 Author: ChinaWiki.net

get the chicken and lose the sheep

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is "zh ē n ɡ J ī sh ī y á n ɡ", which means to compare greed with greed. From Yi Lin.

The origin of Idioms

Jiao Yanshou's Yilin of the Han Dynasty, Volume 8: "competing for the best, losing the best."

Idiom usage

It refers to the loss of great things from small things.

get the chicken and lose the sheep


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