actingas if one is morally better than other people
Self conceited, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Z ì m ì ngq ī NGG ā o, which means self conceited, despise others. It's from Wu Jianren's strange situation witnessed in 20 years in Qing Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
Wu Jianren of the Qing Dynasty wrote in the strange situation he witnessed in the past 20 years: "he is still conceited, but he says that the rich are common people."
Idiom usage
He is self conceited and always regards the people around him as vulgar things.
actingas if one is morally better than other people
This is tolerable, which is intolerable - cǐ ér kě rěn ,shú bù kě rěn
be as everlasting as the sun and the moon - rì yuè jīng tiān