Fish startles birds

Fish startles birds

Yu Jing Niao San, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin y ú J à ngni à OS à n, means like fish rotting and birds collapsing. It's like a crash, a complete failure. It comes from the book of Chen, the first chapter of Gaozu.

The origin of Idioms

"Chen Shu · Gaozu Ji Shang" said: "the public to steal the border police, know all do, compassion is the alliance, to punish its ugly class, all the fish startled and birds scattered, face tied head hanging."

Idiom usage

Used as an object or adverbial; used in figurative sentences