like throwing stones into the water

like throwing stones into the water

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is R ú sh í t ó ushu ǐ, which means like a stone sinking into the water. From Liezi Shuo Fu.

The origin of Idioms

In Liezi Shuo Fu: "Duke Bai asked," if you throw a stone into water, what will it be like? " Confucius said, "no one can take Wu Zhishan."

Idiom usage

In order to understand human feelings and study physics, a decisive victory is like a prairie fire, and a speech is like throwing stones into water. Gaoying's Cao GUI's Fu on the first battle of Duke Lu in the Tang Dynasty and Li Xiaoyuan's theory of fate in the Three Kingdoms period said: "if you were killed by the Han ancestors, you'd say it's like throwing a stone into the water. Don't go against it."