fish in the cauldron

fish in the cauldron

Fish in the pot, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f ǔ zh ō ngzh ī y ú, which means fish swimming in the pot. Metaphor cannot live long. It comes from the ancestral biography of Wang Rong in the history of the Yuan Dynasty.

Analysis of Idioms

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The origin of Idioms

"Wang Rong's ancestral biography in the history of the Yuan Dynasty:" that small country is in danger, and the fish in the pot is not dead for a long time. "

Idiom usage

To describe someone in a desperate situation. Example: Forty two chapters in the romance of the Three Kingdoms: "today Liu Bei's fish in the pot and the tiger in the well, if he doesn't catch them at this time, he will let the fish go into the sea and the tiger go back to the mountain." Feng Menglong's ancient and modern novels: Yang Ba Lao and a group of common people have been captured by Japanese slaves, just like a turtle in a jar and a fish in a pot. Chapter 80 of the chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty: "when Zixu was nearby, his eyes were like fire, and his voice was like thunder, he went in and said:" the flying bird is above the blue clouds, and he still wants to bow and shoot. Is it near the courtyard? Gou Jian is a man-machine insurance company, and now he is a fish in the pot. He ordered the officials to be appointed. Therefore, he flattered his words and changed his color in order to avoid punishment. Once you have a little ambition, you will not be able to control the tiger in the mountains and the whale in the sea. "