a rat in a hole(wèng zhōng zhī biē)

a rat in a hole

Turtle in a urn, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is w è ngzh ō ngzh ī Bi ē. It means something that is under control and cannot escape. From Yu Shi Ming Yan.

The origin of Idioms

Feng Menglong of Ming Dynasty wrote a general statement of warning the world: "Sun Fu regarded the ten niangs as turtles in the urn, and ordered his children to send the gold writing stationery and put it on the bow of the boat."

Idiom usage

These little Southern barbarians are just a few. They don't have to spend a lot of money. They have to be disciplined one by one. (Chapter 76 of the complete biography of Shuoyue by Qian Cai in Qing Dynasty)

Analysis of Idioms

Catch a turtle in a jar

Chinese PinYin : wèng zhōng zhī biē