idiom > public morality is not what is used to be
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Renxinbugu
　　Explanation: Ancient: refers to the ancient social practice. Old refers to people treacherous, mean, pure and honest without the ancients.
　　Usage: The main predicate; as predicate, object, attribute; containing derogatory
　　Source: Ming Jang, "A theory of Guangdong and Guangxi Yin Shi Ting Hirata things": "Recently Renxinbugu a deep objection."
rén xīn bù gǔ
　　Ancient: ancient social practice. Means the loss of simplicity and kind-hearted people today tend to fraud false, lamented society worse
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No. 3
　　Because after three generations, Renxinbugu. - Qing Li Ru-zhen, "Flowers in the Mirror"
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No. 4
　　The ancient world did not mind that kind. Laments over the world to thin the wind. Ming Jang, "A Theory of Guangdong and Guangxi Ping Yin Shi Ting Gutian things": "Recently Renxinbugu a deep disagreement." "Twenty years have witnessed the strange status quo," the 12th back: "It Renxinbugu, Guibian 100." Lu Xun "set Set Feng foreign words 5 ":" clever people sigh 'Renxinbugu' time, probably failed his artifice; but the old man sighed, 'Renxinbugu', then simply because a son or a concubine by the gas. "
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No. 5
　　【注音】：rén xīn bù gǔ
　　【解释】：古：指古代的社会风尚。旧时指人心奸诈、刻薄，没有古人淳厚。
　　【出处】：清·李汝珍《镜花缘》第五十五回：“奈近来人心不古，都尚奢华。”
　　【语法】：主谓式；作谓语、宾语、定语；含贬义
　　典故来源：
　　由于元代的统治者为蒙古部族，爱好音乐与歌舞，此性格反映在文学上，于是产生了丰富多样的戏剧与歌舞，散曲亦是一种新兴的文学体裁。
　　刘时中即为著名曲家之一。元顺帝天历二年，江西大旱，刘时中见到灾民受难的情况，于是作了两套散曲《端正好》，上呈江西道廉访使高纳麟。第一套的内容陈述饥荒时「谷不登，麦不长」，民无以食的悲惨遭遇，而且愤怒地斥责了奸商富豪趁火打劫的罪行，展现元代社会严重的阶级压榨。第二套则是揭露官吏的无能与玩法乱纪。他形容一群暴发户般的官员为「没见识街市匹夫」，彼此狼狈为奸，勾结作恶，尽日将精力耗费在吃喝嫖赌，完全不顾百姓生计。并申辩说：「不是我要讲他们的坏话，但怎么能眼睁睁地看着邪恶战胜正义？现在的人根本完全丧失了旧时代的淳朴，明明是人，但行事却如禽兽一般。」
　　后来「人心不古」演变为成语，用来感叹现在的人，失去古人的忠厚淳朴。
　　此成语就是出自刘时中的《端正好．上高监司．既官府甚清明套．十二月》曲：“不是我论黄数黑，怎禁他恶紫夺朱？争奈何人心不古，出落著马牛襟裾。”
　　近义词：世风日下、世衰道微
　　反义词：古道热肠、古貌古心
English Expression
  1. n.:  public morality is not what is used to be
  2. v.:  Public morality is not what it used to be (has degenerated)
Thesaurus
_drop_ many metres in one fall, Left behind afterward, change for the better/worse, go from bad to worse; degenerate day by day; be on the decline; be on the wane, the present cannot compare with the past, From bad to worse, a thousand li a day, getting more serious, The moral degeneration of the world is getting worse day by day, Over three score years and ten, rush, A diarrhea Barry, Getting worse, out of the `frying-pan into the `fire from a bad situation to one that is worse
Antonym
be in the forefront, multiply daily, Each for himself and the devil take the hindmost., see to everything oneself, die in harness, Xu States to body, pure as pearly as jade, an honest, diligent, pragmatic and efficient government impartiality, honest and clean candour, devotion to duty, A plus ceaseless, Are increasing ceaseless, have no contact with each other, have no contact with, be honest and clean, be pure and hoble, be willing to repay a favour with extreme sacrifice; be ready to die the cruelest death, Health care, lay down one's life for a just cause; prefer honour to life, Practise what you preach., charge at the head, practise what one `preaches do habitually oneself what one tells others to do, be home free
Containing Phrases
The moral degeneration of the world is getting worse day by day public morality is not what is used to be