bore ice in order to get cream cheese
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Zu ā Nb ī ngqi ú s ū, which means that you can't get what you want. It comes from the Bodhisattva origin Sutra.
Idiom usage
To be an object or attributive
Analysis of Idioms
A synonym: drilling for fire
The origin of Idioms
Under the volume of Bodhisattva origin Sutra: "for example, it's really rare to drill the ice to make it crispy."
Idiom explanation
Pastry: food made of butter, cow and goat milk. It means that you can't get what you want.
bore ice in order to get cream cheese
be six of one and half a dozen of the other - bàn jīn bā liǎng
refuse to do what one is assigned to do - ná sān bān sì