incompatible as fire and water

incompatible as fire and water

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ì R ú Shu ǐ Hu ǒ, which means to describe the two sides as opposed to each other and incompatible as water and fire. It comes from the annals of the Three Kingdoms, the annals of Shu and the biography of Wei Yan.

The origin of Idioms

In the annals of the Three Kingdoms, the annals of Shu, the biography of Wei yanzhuan: "only Yang Yi didn't borrow Yan, and Yan thought that he was extremely angry, just like water and fire."