Definition lit. poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom) / fig. to ride on sb else's success / Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too / Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it

Idiom Legend has it that Liu An, the king of Huainan of the Han Dynasty, cultivated as a fairy queen, and sprinkled the rest of the medicine in the yard. After the chickens and dogs ate them, they all ascended to heaven / Later, a metaphor is that when a person becomes an official, people related to him also gain power

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