Make a fire out of the ice

Make a fire out of the ice

Drilling ice for fire, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Zu à Nb à ngq à Hu à, a metaphor for futility. It comes from "Sanqu of the whole Yuan Dynasty, Putian music, mocking customs".

The origin of Idioms

"Quanyuan Sanqu · putianle · ridicule amorous feelings" says: "every time my sister digs ice to make fire, every time my mother-in-law points to mountains to sell grind."

Idiom usage

As an object or attribute; used in figurative sentences

Examples

The 46th chapter of Penggong case written by Daoist greedy dream in Qing Dynasty: "looking for your old man here is like rolling sand to get oil."

Analysis of Idioms

To seek fire through ice