the students surpass the teacher
Ice is colder than water, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ī NGH á NY ú Shu ǐ, which means that ice is better than water; it means that students are better than teachers. It's from persuasion.
The origin of Idioms
Xunzi's persuasion: "ice, water for it, and cold in water."
Idiom usage
Subject predicate; as predicate and object; with commendatory meaning. Example (DAO) Shi Shi Zhang (Ji Bo), who is cold than water. "Notes of famous paintings in the past dynasties · 7 · Nanqi" by Zhang Yanyuan in Tang Dynasty
the students surpass the teacher
Beat the bull and kill the horse - qiāo niú zǎi mǎ
the more one tries to hide , the more one is exposed - yù gài mí zhāng
get along swimmingly with each other - shuǐ rǔ jiāo róng