To swallow the boat and miss the net

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