attract flies with ice

attract flies with ice

Attract. Use ice to attract flies. It's hard to achieve. The source of "Lu's spring and Autumn Annals · Gongming": "to kill rats with beavers, to kill flies with ice, although work can not."

Entry

Using ice to kill flies: pronounce y ǐ B ī ngzh ì y í ng

words whose meaning is similar

Beaver to rat, limousine to fish

Idiom information

Idiom explanation: to: attract. Use ice to attract flies. It's hard to achieve. commonly used degree: commonly used emotional color: commendatory words grammatical usage: as predicate, object, attribute; metaphor things will be difficult to achieve idiom structure: partial formal generation time: ancient times