浑水摸鱼 — Chinese idiom
浑水摸鱼
hún shuǐ mō yú
Traditional: 渾水摸魚
Meaning
- to fish in troubled water ; to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain
Character by character
- 浑húnblended, mixed; muddy, turbid
- 水shuǐwater, liquid, lotion, juice
- 摸mōto caress, to stroke, to gently touch
- 鱼yúfish
Idioms sharing a character
- 浑浑噩噩 hún hún è è
- 浑然天成 hún rán tiān chéng
- 一清如水 yī qīng rú shuǐ
- 似水年华 sì shuǐ nián huá
- 出水芙蓉 chū shuǐ fú róng
- 如鱼得水 rú yú dé shuǐ
- 山明水秀 shān míng shuǐ xiù
- 山清水秀 shān qīng shuǐ xiù
- 山穷水尽 shān qióng shuǐ jìn
- 山长水远 shān cháng shuǐ yuǎn
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