釜中之魚
fǔ​zhōng​zhī​yú

a fish in a cauldron

  • created sense approved 釜中之鱼/釜中之魚 · fǔ​zhōng​zhī​yú · a fish in a cauldron — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    釜中之鱼 / 釜中之魚

    fǔ​zhōng​zhī​yú

    a fish in a cauldron

    Used to describe someone in a desperate situation with no hope of escape; refers to a fish being cooked in a pot

    釜 (literal) → 釜 · fǔ · cauldron 中 (literal) → 中 · zhōng · middle 之 (literal) → 之 · zhī · [possessive] 鱼 (literal) → 鱼/魚 · yú · fish

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense