have no contact with others

have no contact with others

No water and fire, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ù t ō ngshu ǐ Hu ǒ to describe not communicating with people. It comes from the biography of sun Bao in the book of Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

In the book of Han, sun baozhuan: "the ears and eyes of Ji are long. When you hear about it, you can see that there is no water and fire in Dumen." Yan shigu's note: "if there is no water or fire, it means that there is no communication between neighbors and Wu."

Idiom usage

To be used as a predicate; to describe incommunicado