dredge for a needle in the sea

dredge for a needle in the sea

Looking for a needle in a haystack, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is h ǎ ID ǐ L ā ozhen ē n, which means looking for a needle in a haystack. It is hard to find. It comes from Er Lang Shou Zhu Ba Jie.

The origin of Idioms

In Yuan Dynasty, Wu Changling's "Er Lang Shou Zhu Ba Jie", the third fold: "Juner Fu looks like looking for a needle in the sea. Marriage is coming. How can he disappear without fate? Until now. "

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] looking for the moon in the sea [antonym] effective

Idiom usage

It's hard to find an adjective. Example: on the one hand, we should set up the people and hunt them separately. Most of them should be ~, which one should we find? (Ling Mengchu, Ming Dynasty, Volume 20)