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字词 锦上添花常时有, 雪中送炭能几人?
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锦上添花常时有, 雪中送炭能几人?

Jǐnshàng-tiānhuā cháng shíyǒu; xuězhōng-sòngtàn néng jǐ rén?

錦上添花常時有, 雪中送炭能幾人?

Lit There are sometimes [people who] “add flowers onto brocade,” [but] how many people “send charcoal in snowy weather.”

Fig There will always be people who come to flatter you when you are successful, but no one will come to help you when you are in need; the world is full of “fair weather friends,” but “nobody knows you when you're down and out.”

Note [Cf. Chū Kè Pāi'àn Jīngqì, chap. 20; also said zhǐyǒu jǐnshàng-tiānhuā; nǎ dé xuězhōng-sòngtàn (q.v.); note: jǐnshàng-tiānhuā, “adding flowers to brocade” and xuězhōng-sòngtàn “sending charcoal in snowy weather” are commonly used fused phrase literary idioms (chengyu); note: shíyǒu, “to happen now and then.”]

Topics chengyu Chū Kè Pāi'àn Jīngqì FAIR-WEATHER FLATTERY FRIENDSHIP HELP jǐnshàng-tiānhuā MONEY NEED SINCERITY xuězhōng-sòngtàn

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