Idle gulls and wild herons
The Chinese idiom Xi á n ō uy ě L ù in pinyin refers to a retired and idle person, or refers to a woman in an improper relationship between men and women. It's from water melody.
The origin of Idioms
"Shui Diao Ge tou" CI: "humble son life source, although idle gulls and wild herons, 15 degrees of the Yellow River."
Idiom usage
As subject, object, attribute; used in figurative sentences
Idle gulls and wild herons
Change the beam and change the column - gǎi liáng huàn zhù
Chapter eight of right biography - yòu chuán zhī bā zhāng
fair as a flower and beautiful as the moon - huā yán yuè mào
Keep like a virgin, leave like a rabbit - shǒu rú chǔ nǚ,chū rú tuō tù