An answer to the two-part allegorical saying "Kill the goose that lays the golden egg"

Kill the chicken to get the egg, that is, kill the chicken to get the egg. Metaphor covets immediate interests and ignores long-term interests. Do you know the answer? Let me show you around.

Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs is not worth the candle.

Analysis of the words that are not worth the loss [interpretation] can't make up for what is lost. I can't describe it.

[Language] "Really? Biography of Xiqiang: So don't reward; Get twice the result with half the effort. ?

[Pronunciation] Germany; Can't read as? děi？ ; Compensation; Can't read as? shǎnɡ？ .

[near meaning] because of small losses, greed for small losses.

[Antonym] Asking for rice pulp is twice as profitable as drinking.

[Usage] It is often derogatory. Generally used as predicate, object and attribute.

Subject-predicate type

Making sentences (1) is not worth the candle. Learn step by step and be eager for success. You can only push the young seeds forward, which is not worth the loss.

If we put the cart before the horse, we will lose more than we gain.

(3) I braved the heavy rain to buy breakfast, and stained the big cotton shoes that Brother Qi gave me. It's not worth it.

(4) Don't do things with a grain of salt, otherwise the loss outweighs the gain.

(5) However, the loss of Britain and the gain of Croatia are equivalent.

(6) mainly to ensure traffic safety. Otherwise, once something goes wrong, it will not be worth the loss.

(7) When we blurt it out without thinking, we often regret it.

Getting good grades is something to be excited about. If you are proud of it, you will lose more than you gain.

(9) If you stay up late for surfing the Internet, you will lose more than you gain, and you are undoubtedly selling your health!

(10) Some senior politicians admit that Britain's immigration policy is not worth the candle.

(1 1) This stupid practice is tantamount to breaking the formalities, and it is not worth the candle.

(12) Be cautious before acting; Because it is not worth the loss to be cautious, not to strive for success and then lose the opportunity to develop or win.

(13) Be cautious before acting; Because it is not worth the loss to be cautious, not to strive for success and then lose the opportunity to develop or win. Choose good people to make friends, choose good books to read, choose good words to listen to and choose good people to do.

(14) If investors don't analyze and compare the company's financial situation, they will buy their own stocks in the dark. In case they choose the wrong speculators, their hard work and savings will be ruined, and eventually they will lose everything. Basic analysis can tell you which stocks have "inner beauty", and technical analysis can tell you the best time to tap these stocks.

(15) However, many officials have come to the conclusion that at present, the damage and loss of independence caused by inflation expectations will exceed the gains from buying more government bonds.

(16) For many people, the benefits of paid vacation are offset by congestion and price fraud.

(17) However, once they win this battle, there will be a slow and perhaps more painful conflict waiting for them: a struggle to prevent the government from levying exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous fees, or a struggle to prevent the government from stipulating that everything needs to be approved at different levels, so that everything becomes unworthy of efforts.

(18) However, a recent study in a hospital found that the water saving of this faucet may not be worth the candle.

(19) Scolding a child in front of everyone will make him feel ashamed and hurt his self-esteem, which is not worth the candle.

(20) He thought that eating in the east and living in the west could take advantage of everything, but unexpectedly he lost everyone's trust, which was really not worth the candle.

(2 1) The article says that if Vietnam and India undermine the big interests of peace, stability and economic development in China, Vietnam, India and the whole South China Sea because of this small interest, it will definitely be worth the candle.

(22) He thought that eating in the east and living in the west could take advantage of everything, but unexpectedly he lost everyone's trust, which was really not worth the candle.

(23) Fighting for orthodoxy, legal system, spiritual tablet, power and fame, fighting for the whole person, fighting for abnormal climate, soil erosion and ecological imbalance, not worth the loss, or fighting with people wholeheartedly.

(24) He reiterated the standard view that the central bank should not aim at housing prices: only the actual economic situation can identify the bubble, and it may not be worth the candle to puncture the bubble by raising interest rates.