到水中去捞月亮。比喻去做根本做不到的事，只能白费力气。

catch the moon from the bottom of the sea

盲人骑着瞎马。比喻盲目行动，后果十分危险。

rush headlong into disaster

1.如蝉脱壳，如龙蛇换皮。比喻解脱而进入更高境界。《淮南子·精神训》：“若此人者，抱素守精，蟬蜕蛇解，游於太清，輕舉獨往，忽然入冥，鳳皇不能與之儷，而況斥鷃乎？”2.后世道教多以指羽化成仙。

1. Like a cicada shedding its shell, like a dragon or snake changing its skin. A metaphor for liberation and entering a higher realm. (From Huainanzi · On the Spirit Training): 'As for such a person, holding to purity and guarding the essence, shedding like a cicada and a snake, roaming in the Great Clarity, lifting lightly and traveling alone, suddenly entering the obscure, the Phoenix cannot be paired with him, let alone the small birds?' 2. In later Daoism, often refers to attaining immortality through transcendence.

塞：边界险要之处；翁：老头。比喻一时虽然受到损失，也许反而因此能得到好处。也指坏事在一定条件下可变为好事。

a loss may turn out to be a gain

螳螂正要捉蝉，不知黄雀在它后面正要吃它。比喻目光短浅，只想到算计别人，没想到别人在算计他。

The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind covet gains ahead without being aware of danger behind

“鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利”的省语。比喻双方相持不下，而使第三者从中得利。

its the third party that benefits from the tussle

比喻居安忘危的人。

Swallows and magpies in the hall

比喻因祸得福的人。

Losing a horse, a blessing in disguise

比喻只凭片面了解或局部经验就对事物妄加判断。同“盲翁扪籥”。

Blind people feeling a candle

鱼肉：当作鱼肉一般任意宰割。比喻内部自相残杀。

kill or oppress each other mutual annihilation

残：伤害。自己人互相杀害。

(of persons within a group, party etc.) kill each other

雷声来得非常快，连捂耳朵都来不及。比喻来势凶猛，使人来不及防备。

as sudden as a flash of lightning

象蚕吃桑叶那样一步步侵占，象鲸吞食那样一下子吞并。比喻用各种方式侵占吞并别国的领土。

seize territory

比喻劳而无功，白费气力。

Fishing for the moon in the sea

后因以为典，喻事不同而实则一。

Storing grain while sheep are lost

用火来救火灾。比喻工作方法不对头，不但无益，反而有害。

Fight fire with fire

指世事多变，得失无常。

Gaining a horse but losing it

背着柴草去救火。比喻用错误的方法去消除灾祸，结果使灾祸反而扩大。

make things go from bad to worse carrying firewood to put out a fire

比喻两雄不可并存。

A fox is not twice a hero

鸡鹜：比喻平庸的人。旧指小人互争名利。

Chickens and ducks competing with each other