lure mice with a cat

lure mice with a cat

Baiting a mouse with a beaver, an idiom, means to catch a mouse and use a cat as bait. It's a metaphor for things that don't work.

source

According to the book of Shang Jun - agricultural war, "if I don't seek to move on the basis of goods, then I will not hope for it, just as I bait the cat."

explain

A beaver is a cat.

words whose meaning is similar

To kill a rat with a beaver

usage

It is a metaphor for the failure of things.