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笑贫不笑娼
xiào pín bù xiào chāng
What 笑贫不笑娼 means
- 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)
The characters in 笑贫不笑娼
- 笑xiàoto laugh; to smile; to laugh at
- 贫pínpoor; inadequate; deficient
- 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- 笑xiàoto laugh; to smile; to laugh at
- 娼chāngprostitute
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