笑贫不笑娼

the notion in society that it's better to get ahead in the world by abandoning one's scruples than to suffer poverty / lit. despising poverty but not prostitution (idiom)

Characters and words in 笑贫不笑娼

old variant of 笑[xiao4]

= + : This character just looks like a certain laughing cat: ⺮ are the eyes and 夭 looks like the snout.

= + : In the aorta's bathroom, Marie Curie tells Snow White a story how she once hoaxed the whole university into believing that her simple bamboo stick can be used as fuel assembly in a nuclear reactor. She can't stop laughing while she tells her story.
laugh / smile / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + : This character just looks like a certain laughing cat: ⺮ are the eyes and 夭 looks like the snout.

= + : In the aorta's bathroom, Marie Curie tells Snow White a story how she once hoaxed the whole university into believing that her simple bamboo stick can be used as fuel assembly in a nuclear reactor. She can't stop laughing while she tells her story.
to laugh; to smile / to laugh at
poor / inadequate / deficient / garrulous

= + : Pocahontas (pi) has the crab (贝) cut her hair while stopping the time with a stopwatch (分) in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2). While the crab cuts quite fast, the resulting hairstyle is of very poor (贫) quality.
(negative prefix) / not / no

= + : Bruno Bear (bu) is setting up a wind wheel (丆) with a voodoo staff (卜) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). He also puts a "forbidden" sign (mnemonic symbol for 不) on it, to make clear that it may not (不) be stopped.
no; not so / (bound form) not; un-
prostitute

Words with 笑贫不笑娼

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Sentences with 笑贫不笑娼

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