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
encourage monsters to stalk abroad , making trouble , causing disorder - xīng yāo zuò guài
dip one 's finger and water for sth. - rǎn zhǐ chuí xián