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鱼游釜中
yú​yóu​fǔ​zhōng

fish swimming in a pot

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
鱼游釜中 魚遊釜中 yú​yóu​fǔ​zhōng
variant 魚游釜中
fish swimming in a pot
A fish swimming in a cooking pot; a metaphor for being in a desperate situation with death or disaster imminent.

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Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)