Make a fire out of the ice
Drilling ice for fire, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Zu à Nb à ngq à Hu à, a metaphor for futility. It comes from "Sanqu of the whole Yuan Dynasty, Putian music, mocking customs".
The origin of Idioms
"Quanyuan Sanqu · putianle · ridicule amorous feelings" says: "every time my sister digs ice to make fire, every time my mother-in-law points to mountains to sell grind."
Idiom usage
As an object or attribute; used in figurative sentences
Examples
The 46th chapter of Penggong case written by Daoist greedy dream in Qing Dynasty: "looking for your old man here is like rolling sand to get oil."
Analysis of Idioms
To seek fire through ice
Chinese PinYin : zuàn bīng qǔ huǒ
Make a fire out of the ice
use a stone as a pillow and rinse one 's mouth by means of stream - water -- living in seclusion. zhěn shí shù liú
The autumn wind sweeps the fallen leaves. qiū fēng sǎo luò yè