Casting wood and carving ice

Casting wood and carving ice

Casting wood and carving ice, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is "zh ù m ù L ò UB ī ng", which means to refer to the ineffective handling of things. It comes from Hailu Suishi · personnel.

Idiom explanation

[explanation] it refers to binding trees (making them grow in the form of human beings) and carving ice (making them into some exquisite handicraft). [usage] as an object or attribute; used in figurative sentences

Idioms and allusions

[source] ye Tingli of the Song Dynasty wrote in his Hailu Suishi · Renmin: "selling pulp and selling wheat, losing time, casting wood and carving ice, there is no day in the beginning."

Analysis of Idioms

[synonyms] cooking sand and carving out ice, painting water and carving out ice, carving out ice and carving out gravel