一本万利

一本萬利

yīběnwànlì

idiom

Meanings

Zuò zhè zhǒng shēngyi yī běn wàn lì, nánguài nàme duō rén xiǎng cānyù.

This kind of business brings huge returns on small capital — no wonder so many want in.

Nǎ yǒu shénme yī běn wàn lì de hǎoshì, tiānshàng bù huì diào xiànbǐng.

There's no such thing as a sure-fire jackpot business — pies don't fall from the sky.

usage

Business idiom — 本 = capital, 利 = profit. Often used skeptically, as in warnings against too-good-to-be-true schemes.

一 yī

本 běn

万 wàn

利 lì