救急不救穷

help the starving but not the poor (idiom)

variant of 救[jiu4]

to save / to assist / to rescue

to provide emergency assistance

urgent / pressing / rapid / hurried / worried / to make (sb) anxious

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

poor / destitute / to use up / to exhaust / thoroughly / extremely / (coll.) persistently and pointlessly