Fish in the water

Fish in the water

Fish swimming in the cauldron, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ú y ó UF è ID ǐ ng, which means fish swimming in a pot; it refers to being in a very dangerous situation and in danger of dying. It comes from Xingci Zhaoying county road.

The origin of Idioms

Li Shangyin of the Tang Dynasty wrote a poem on the road of Zhaoying County: "when fish swim in the cauldron, you will know that there is no day. When birds fall over a dangerous nest, you will not wait for the wind."

Idiom usage

To be on the verge of extinction. example fish swim in a boiling pot and turn into juice. In Qing Dynasty, Zhang pengdan's poem on abstinence from killing in heqiting (2) and in Southern Dynasty, Liang Qiuchi's book with Chen Bo: "but the general fish is swimming in the boiling cauldron, and the swallow's nest is above the flying curtain, isn't it confused?"