假公济私 — Chinese idiom
假公济私
jiǎ gōng jì sī
Traditional: 假公濟私
Meaning
- official authority used for private interests ; to attain private ends by abusing public position
Character by character
- 假jiǎfake, false, deceitful; vacation
- 公gōngfair, equitable; public; duke
- 济jìto aid, to help, to relieve; to ferry across
- 私sīpersonal, private, secret; selfish
Idioms sharing a character
- 不假思索 bù jiǎ sī suǒ
- 以假乱真 yǐ jiǎ luàn zhēn
- 假手于人 jiǎ shǒu yú rén
- 假途灭虢 jiǎ tú miè Guó
- 假道伐虢 jiǎ dào fá Guó
- 半真半假 bàn zhēn bàn jiǎ
- 弄假成真 nòng jiǎ chéng zhēn
- 弄虚作假 nòng xū zuò jiǎ
- 狐假虎威 hú jiǎ hǔ wēi
- 克己奉公 kè jǐ fèng gōng
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