雁过拔毛 (yàn guò bá máo) | Meaning: lit. to grab feathers from a flying goose | Chinese Idiom with Pinyin & Origin

sharp and unkind (words)尖酸刻薄jiān suān kè bó

avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied贪得无厌tān dé wú yàn

(idiom) to be bent solely on profit; to put profit before everything else唯利是图wéi lì shì tú

lit. to grab feathers from a flying goose · fig. to seize any opportunity · pragmatic