厚此薄彼

厚此薄彼 [hòu cǐ bó bǐ]

1. ■ favour one more than another; apply the most-favoured clause to one country and set up almost a tariff wall against another; be biased; be liberal to one and stingy to another; discriminate against one and favour the other; favour one and be prejudiced against the other; favour one and discriminate against the other; give handsome treatment to one and niggardly treatment to the other; give royal welcome to one and cold reception to the other; give too much to one and too little to another; make fish of one and flesh [fowl] of another; make invidious distinctions; say turkey to one and buzzard to another; The treatment accorded to one is out of all proportion to that accorded to the other.; treat with partiality; Why slight A and honour B when on personal merits it should be the other way round?