Fish in the water and birds in the water

Fish in the water and birds in the water

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is y ú Ku ì Ni ǎ ol í, which means that it means a complete failure. It comes from the book of Zhou, the second chapter of Emperor Wu.

The origin of Idioms

In the book of Zhou, the second chapter of Wudi Ji: "Wang Wei is not only active, but also difficult to break the bamboo He Guangyuan's Jian Jie Lu Zhi Ji Dui in the later Shu Dynasty: "one strike leads to the collapse of the fish and the separation of the birds, and four combinations lead to the separation of the boar and the snake."

Analysis of Idioms

Synonyms: fish startles and birds scatter, fish ulcers and birds scatter

Idiom usage

Used as an object or adverbial; used in figurative sentences