A fish in a boat

A fish in a boat

Fish swallowing a boat, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin t ū nzh ō UZH ī y ú, means a big fish that can swallow a boat. It is often used as a metaphor for the greatness of personnel. It comes from the spring and Autumn Annals of the Lu family, zhidu.

The origin of Idioms

Chuang Tzu · gengsang Chu: "a fish that swallows a boat loses water when it is Dang." In Liezi Yang Zhu: "a fish swallowing a boat does not swim in a branch; a swan flying high does not gather in a polluted pond." The preface to the biographies of cruel officials in historical records: "the net leaks in the fish that swallows the boat, but the official administration is too strict to be treacherous. Ai'an, the Li people."

Idiom usage

It is often used in figurative sentences. A long whale riding on the sea.