The fire is in the ashes
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Hu ǒ J ì nhu ī L ě ng, which means that power disappears. It comes from the story of Tianbao in Kaiyuan: begging for fire.
The origin of Idioms
Wang Renyu's "Tianbao legacy of Kaiyuan · begging for fire" in the Five Dynasties: "today's Chaoyan are all begging for fire. It's very cold all day. Where's the heating? When the frozen corpse is cracked and the bone is discarded, the disaster will not be far away. "
Idiom usage
As a predicate or attribute; used in figurative sentences
The fire is in the ashes
destroy evils before they become apparent - dù jiàn fáng wēi
profess one thing, but mean another - kǒu bù yìng xīn
the last basket of earth that helps in building mound - yī kuì zhī gōng
More help from the right, less help from the wrong - dé dào duō zhù,shī dào guǎ zhù
get half the results with double the effort - lì bèi gōng bàn