lure mice with a cat(yǐ lí zhì shǔ)

lure mice with a cat

It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is y ǐ L í zh ì sh ǔ, which means that things can't succeed. It's the same as "baiting mice with beavers". From reform and self improvement.

The origin of Idioms

The speaker, sitting in the well, peeping at the sky, ~ ear! Wang Tao's reform and self improvement in Qing Dynasty

Idiom usage

It is a metaphor for failure

Chinese PinYin : yǐ lí zhì shǔ