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Meaning of 笑贫不笑娼

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xiào pín xiào chāng (Trad.: 笑貧不笑娼)
the notion in society that it's better to get ahead in the world by abandoning one's scruples than to suffer poverty; lit. despising poverty but not prostitution (idiom)
Example Sentences
1
They laugh at poor people, but they don't laugh at prostitutes.
2
His original words sound like that, now it is an age when poverty instead of prostitution is laughed at.
3
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Let us pray for a compassionate heart and strong Biblical stand in a society that accepts that " prostitution is better than poverty ".