钱流地

錢流地

qiánliúdì

idiom

Meanings

1 skilled financial management that makes wealth flow abundantly
2 money streaming across the land

Characters

Examples

他理财有方，家中真有钱流地之势。

Tā lǐcái yǒu fāng, jiā zhōng zhēn yǒu qiánliúdì zhī shì.

He manages his finances expertly; at home the money really seems to flow like rivers.

古人形容善理财者如见钱流地上。

Gǔrén xíngróng shàn lǐcái zhě rú jiàn qián liú dì shàng.

The ancients described skilled financial managers as if they could see coin streaming across the ground.

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history

From the 新唐书 biography of Liu Yan (刘晏), Tang dynasty finance minister. He set up a network of couriers and relay stations to track prices nationwide, saying he could see 'money flowing across the land' — the phrase has meant efficient, overflowing finance ever since.

Stroke Order

钱 qián

流 liú

地 dì