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Korean life dictionary

22 short guides to words and manners

Four-character idioms

아전인수

我田引水 · drawing water into your own field

Twisting things to suit yourself.

When to useSomeone reading a rule only in their own favor.

Related proverbarm-bends-inward

Examples

  • 그건 너무 아전인수격 해석이야.

    That's a very self-serving interpretation.

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