What do you mean, if you get rich, you will get rich, but if you lose, you will get rich.

"Prospering a family is like digging dirt, but losing it is like scouring sand" is a couplet, which is usually used to warn people that it is difficult to prosper a family, but it is easy to lose it.

Couplet annotation

Revitalize the homeland and prosper.

Picking dirt with a needle is a metaphor for accumulating wealth bit by bit.

Surging on the shore, the metaphor soon collapsed.

Couplet analysis

Shanglian is like picking dirt with a needle and accumulating wealth bit by bit. The second part of the league is like a wave of sand, and wealth will soon disappear.