To swallow the boat and miss the net
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is t ū nzh ō UL ò UW ǎ ng, which means that a big fish has escaped from the net, and is often used as a metaphor to explain that a big one is at large. It comes from the theory of reading Tongjian · Qin Shihuang.
The origin of Idioms
Wang Fuzhi's "on reading Tongjian · Qin Shihuang" in the Qing Dynasty: "what's the point of being lenient and strict, being simple and determined, and not daring to touch Liang Geng again?"
Idiom usage
It is often used in figurative sentences
Analysis of Idioms
If you swallow a boat, you will lose it
To swallow the boat and miss the net
Better be a chicken than a cow - nìng wéi jī kǒu,wú wéi niú hòu
Fighting against water and activating scale - dòu shuǐ huó lín