Fish startles birds
Yu Jing Niao San, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin y ú J à ngni à OS à n, means like fish rotting and birds collapsing. It's like a crash, a complete failure. It comes from the book of Chen, the first chapter of Gaozu.
The origin of Idioms
"Chen Shu · Gaozu Ji Shang" said: "the public to steal the border police, know all do, compassion is the alliance, to punish its ugly class, all the fish startled and birds scattered, face tied head hanging."
Idiom usage
Used as an object or adverbial; used in figurative sentences
Chinese PinYin : yú jīng niǎo sàn
Fish startles birds
tears and snivel fall down at the same time. tì sì jiāo liú
the mountains are high and the water wide. shān yáo shuǐ yuǎn
Rootless wood, water without source. wú gēn zhī mù,wú yuán zhī shuǐ
I don't know about each other. bù xiāng wèn wén