dredge the moon out from the bottom of the water(shuǐ dǐ lāo yuè)
dredge the moon out from the bottom of the water
As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is Shu ǐ D ǐ L ā oyu è, which means that you can only waste your efforts to do something you can't do at all. From chuanxilu.
The origin of Idioms
Wang Shouren's chuanxilu of Ming Dynasty says: "if you want to seek the sound of yuan in the grain of Jiahui millet, it's like fishing for the moon at the bottom of the water."
Idiom usage
In vain; in vain.
Chinese PinYin : shuǐ dǐ lāo yuè
dredge the moon out from the bottom of the water
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