夤缘攀附
Traditional form:
夤緣攀附
Pinyin (reading):
yínyuánpānfù
Definitions:
- to cling to the rich and powerful (idiom); to advance one's career by currying favor
- social climbing
Characters:
- 夤 - late at night; distant, remote; deep
- 缘 - reason, cause; fate; margin, hem
- 攀 - to climb, to hang on, to pull up
- 附 - nearby; to adhere to, to attach; to rely on
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