竹篮打水

add fuel to the flames/fire

火上加油

add fuel to the flames/fire 火上加油 | blood is thicker than water 血浓于水 | draw water with a sieve 竹篮打水一场空

If you peer at a person through a crack-he looks flat

隔着门缝看人--把人瞧扁了

11.癞蛤蟆想吃天鹅肉--痴心妄想. A toad lusting after a swan's f... | 12.竹篮子打水--一场空. Like ladling water with ... | 14.隔着门缝看人--把人瞧扁了. If you peer at a person through a crack-he looks flat.

竹篮子打水一场空. Practice makes perfect. 熟能生巧

Pour water into a sieve

Pleasure comes through toil. 苦尽甘来. | Pour water into a sieve. 竹篮子打水一场空. Practice makes perfect. 熟能生巧. | Praise is not pudding. 恭维话不能当饭吃.

Drunkenness reveals what soberness conceals

酒后露真言. </P>

Draw water with a sieve. 竹篮子打水一场空. | Drunkenness reveals what soberness conceals. 酒后露真言. | Each day brings its own bread. 天无绝人之路.

draw water to ones mill

竹篮打水

4. be too smart by half; Cunning outwits itself.聪明反被聪明误. | 6. draw water to ones mill. 竹篮打水 | 7. Seeing is believing. 眼见为实.

Dreams go by contraries

梦想往往和现实相反

46.Draw water with a sieve . 竹篮子打水一场空 | 47.Dreams go by contraries. 梦想往往和现实相反 | 49.East ,west , home is best . 金窝、银窝,不如家里的草窝

Like ladling water with a wicker basket-all is empty(nothing)

竹篮打水--一场空

茶壶里煮饺子--有也倒不出. A dumpling in a boil... | 癞蛤蟆想吃天鹅肉--痴心妄想. A toad lusting after a swan's flesh-a... | 竹篮打水--一场空. Like ladling water with a wicker basket-all is empty(nothing).

Like ladling water with a wicker basket;all is empty (no-thing)

竹篮子打水--一场空

11.癞蛤蟆想吃天鹅肉--痴心妄想. A toad lusting after a swan's ... | 12.竹篮子打水--一场空. Like ladling water with a wicker basket;all is empty (no-thing). | 14.隔着门缝看人--把人瞧扁了. If you peer at ...

be too smart by half; Cunning outwits itself

聪明反被聪明误

3. If we cannot get what we like, we have to like what we can get. 珍惜眼前人. | 4. be too smart by half; Cunning outwits itself.聪明反被聪明误. | 6. draw water to ones mill. 竹篮打水

turming somersaults an knives--playing with ones life

刀尖上翻筋斗--玩命

竹篮打水--一场空. Drawing water with a bamboo basket--achieving n... | 刀尖上翻筋斗--玩命. turming somersaults an knives--playing with ones life. | 和尚的脑壳--没法(发)A monk's head--without hair(no wa...

Senior Chief made the swim to the Aleutian Islands：军士长游泳去了阿留申群岛

Some people actually believe|有些人真的相信 | Senior Chief made the swim to the Aleutian Islands.|军士长游泳去了阿留申群岛 | He's standing on a distant beach somewhere|此时他正在某个遥远的海滩

plebeianism：庶民风格

plebeian 平民 | plebeianism 庶民风格 | plebiscitary 平民表决法令的