To make bricks out of ice

To make bricks out of ice

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is l ò UB ī ngchu ī L ì, which means the metaphor is futile. It comes from Song Dynasty Huang Tingjian's send Wang Lang off.

The origin of Idioms

In Song Dynasty, Huang Tingjian's poem "send Wang Lang away", he said, "I'm not satisfied with cooking, but it takes a lot of skill to carve out the words on ice."

Analysis of Idioms

It's useless

Idiom usage

As an object or attributive; in vain

Examples

The work of Chu leaves is as painstaking as carving out ice and cooking gravel. The Song Dynasty, Liu Kezhuang's "Manjianghong" Ci