lure mice with a cat
It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is y ǐ L í zh ì sh ǔ, which means that things can't succeed. It's the same as "baiting mice with beavers". From reform and self improvement.
The origin of Idioms
The speaker, sitting in the well, peeping at the sky, ~ ear! Wang Tao's reform and self improvement in Qing Dynasty
Idiom usage
It is a metaphor for failure
lure mice with a cat
drive one 's friends to the side of the enemy - wèi cóng qū què