idiom > take a share of the spoils without participating personally in the robbery
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Sit spoils
  Explanation: Thieves steal place originally referred to carve up the loot. Are multi-fingered bandit chieftain Wozhu hands and sit at home do not get sub-cohorts of stolen property.
  Usage: Partial official; as predicate; containing derogatory
  Source: Ming Feng Meng, "Awaken the common saying" Volume sixteen there alone and weak, to do four or five guys together, one well-known official, the rest sit in dividing the spoils. "
  Examples: Vicinity of the anti-military, lookout students fear, no one would dare and then battle, but was even with him with communication, turn for the better ~. ★ Caidong Fan, Xu Jin Father "Romance of the Republic of popular" back to the twenty-fifth
zuò dì fēn zāng
  Bandit chieftain, act as receivers, which are not themselves criminals and wait for hours to get dirt
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That the local thieves carve up stolen goods
  That the thief on the spot divided stolen goods. Also refers to bandit chieftain, so they do not act as receivers hands and take the stolen goods sub-associates. "Lizzie," the second three times: "You dog erected to the party, relatives for a party, a party for the World Friendship. Compaction is not a good friend of his, recommended his good friend, the recommended one or two get out, he sit in sub-Zang, is to corrupt rules of. "Mao Dun" till winter ":" Zhang is a thief then stripping himself! He sat in spoils ... ... last year not to a group of thieves stealing cattle Why? Zhuantou off people's cattle, but also to steal the Square in the town of powder; Zhang stripping him - is the nest home! "
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No. 4
  Headwords sit spoils
  Pronunciation zuò dì fēn zāng
  Interpretation refers to the original thieves steal fixed somewhere to carve up the loot. Now multi-fingered bandit chieftain Wozhu own hands while sitting at home without dispensing accomplices to steal property. Sit: fixed somewhere. Stolen: booties, referring to stolen property.
  Source Ming Feng Meng, "Awaken the common saying" Volume XVI: "There are powerless alone, four or five guys to do together, a person well-known official, the rest sit spoils." Greedy dream Qing Taoist "Peng koan" 32nd : "He was sitting in the spoils, there are two hundred men Greenwood human."
  Example in the vicinity of the anti-military, lookout raw fear, and then no one would dare battle, but was even with him with communication, change for the better ~. (Cai Dongfan, Xu Jin Father "Popular Romance of the Republic," the twenty-fifth back) "Lizzie" 231 back: "He does not squeeze a good friend, a good friend of his recommended, recommended was twelve out, he would sit spoils . "like Yao" night "forty:."! Lao times when the solid is murder and arson, but also sometimes punish you dressed in army skin, the light will be disastrous, sit spoils. "
  Usage is formal; as predicate; containing derogatory
  Thesaurus split sit, sit back and enjoy
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English Expression
  1. n.:  take a share of the spoils without participating personally in the robbery
Thesaurus
graft, the hard-won possession of the people, eat the bread of idleness, s nest, s Deli, Mingaominzhi, tainted money
Antonym
no have an eye to the main ehance, dinkum fill one's pipe