鱼沉雁杳 — Chinese idiom
鱼沉雁杳
yú chén yàn yǎo
Traditional: 魚沉雁杳
Meaning
- lit. the fish swam away into the depths, the goose vanished in the distance
- fig. to have had no news (of sb who went away); to have lost contact
Character by character
Idioms sharing a character
- 如鱼得水 rú yú dé shuǐ
- 水清无鱼 shuǐ qīng wú yú
- 浑水摸鱼 hún shuǐ mō yú
- 漏网之鱼 lòu wǎng zhī yú
- 缘木求鱼 yuán mù qiú yú
- 自相鱼肉 zì xiāng yú ròu
- 葬身鱼腹 zàng shēn yú fù
- 釜底游鱼 fǔ dǐ yóu yú
- 雁杳鱼沉 yàn yǎo yú chén
- 鱼死网破 yú sǐ wǎng pò
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