损公肥私

损
損
公
公
肥
肥
私
私
to damage the public interest for personal profit (idiom); personal profit at public expense / venal and selfish behavior

Characters and words in 损公肥私

损
損
sǔn = su + (e)n3
to decrease / to lose / to damage / to harm / (coll.) to speak sarcastically / to deride / caustic / mean / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes (䷨)
损 = 员 + 扌 : Susan Saint Bernard (su) left her web just for a second to visit the bathroom, but when she comes back she finds that the encampment's ((e)n3) waiter (员) destroyed (损) her web with a toy claw (扌).
损
損
sǔn = su + (e)n3
to decrease; to lose / to damage; to harm / (coll.) to ridicule; to deride / (coll.) caustic; sarcastic; nasty; mean / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes: ䷨
公
go̅ng = gu + (e)ng1
public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal)
公 = 八 + 厶 : Mnemonic symbol from 公交车: a (magic) bus.
公 = 八 + 厶 : Gitta Giraffe has to deliver 100 eight balls to engine driving a magic bus. She is driving in front of the engine and because the load is so heavy, she is driving very slowly. Additionally, she tried to decrease the wind resistance by installing a large fake nose at the front of the bus.
肥
féi = f + ei2
fat / fertile / loose-fitting or large / to fertilize / to become rich by illegal means / fertilizer / manure
肥 = 巴 + 月 : Frankenstein's Monster (f) and the moon (月) have been eating lots of lollipops (巴) in the Eiffel Tower's kitchen (ei2) until they became round and fat (肥).
私
si̅ = s + Ø1
personal / private / selfish
私 = 厶 + 禾 : Socrates (s) was hiding the space station's cereals (禾) supplies all along in a fake nose (厶). Now he is heating it all selfishly (私) and sneakily in front of the space station (Ø1).

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