Searching for sheep

Searching for sheep

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin, is sh ǔ Xu é x ú NY á ng, which means to compare ineffective practices. It comes from the supplement of Suiyuan poetry.

The origin of Idioms

The fourth volume of the supplement to Suiyuan Shihua written by Yuan Mei in the Qing Dynasty: "there is a public scholar who sets up a fishing line with a dragonfly. The word" Dragonfly "is limited to seven lines and forty rhymes. People think it's hard. Yu said with a smile, "it's called" searching for sheep in a rat's cave and singing in a bee's nest. "

Analysis of Idioms

Seeking fish from trees

Idiom usage

As an object or attribute; used in figurative sentences