Chinese fish with beef hoof

Chinese fish with beef hoof

Fish in ox hoof, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ni ú t í zh ō ngy ú, meaning fish in ox hoof seal pit. It means that the time of death is approaching. From the book with Wei Zhongjiang.

The origin of Idioms

"I'm afraid that I will be a fish in a ox's hoof, and I will be the fourth of Bao's family."

Analysis of Idioms

A fish of ox's hoof

Idiom usage

As subject, object, attribute; used in figurative sentences

Idiom story

During the Warring States period, Zhuang Zhou's family in the state of song was poor. When he borrowed grain from his friend Jianhe Hou, his friend said that he would lend it to him after he received the rent. He told his friend: on the way, he met a crucian carp whose water was drying in the ox's hoof seal and asked him for help. He promised the crucian carp that he would go to the state of Wu and the state of Yue to borrow water for him. The crucian carp said that when you came back, I would be in the fish shop.