攀亲道故

to use claims to kinship or friendship to climb socially (idiom)

to climb (by pulling oneself up) / to implicate / to claim connections of higher status

to seek to profit by family ties

parent / one's own (flesh and blood) / relative / related / marriage / bride / close / intimate / in person / first-hand / in favor of / pro- / to kiss / (Internet slang) dear

parents-in-law of one's offspring

road / path / CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3] / principle / truth / morality / reason / skill / method / Dao (of Daoism) / to say / to speak / to talk / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division)

happening / instance / reason / cause / intentional / former / old / friend / therefore / hence / (of people) to die, dead