趁火打劫
趁火打劫
chèn huǒ dǎ jié
to loot a burning house; to profit from sb's misfortune (idiom)
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- (verb, idiom) to loot a burning house
- to profit from sb's misfortune (idiom)
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Related Words
乘火打劫(chéng huǒ dǎ jié)— to take advantage of sb's misfortune
→一木难支(yī mù nán zhī)— lit. a single post cannot prop up a falling house (idiom)
→一本万利(yī běn wàn lì)— small capital, huge profit (idiom); to put in a little and get a lot out
→三光政策(Sān guāng Zhèng cè)— Three Alls Policy (kill all, burn all, loot all), Japanese policy in China during WWII
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