Pinyin is yù bàng xiāng zhēng, which means that the two sides are at odds and the third party benefits from it. Among them, snipe refers to a kind of waterfowl with brown feathers, slender mouth and legs, and often preys on small fish, insects and mussels in shallow water or paddy fields.

Extended data:

1, "the snipe and the clam fight" tells the story that snipe and the clam fight, but they don't give in to each other, but let the fisherman profit from it. It warns people to weigh the gains and losses, not just to think about their own benefits, to make concessions to each other, to take a step back, and to blindly restrain each other will often take care of one thing and let others take advantage.

2. The Struggle between Snakes and Clams is selected from The Warring States Policy Yance. The debater used folk fables to illustrate that Zhao Yan's stalemate would bring harm to the two countries, thus preventing Zhao from attacking Yan. It tells people that in all kinds of chaotic and complicated contradictions and struggles, if the opposing sides can't fight, the result will be both losses and the third party will benefit from it.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia _ snipe and clam compete.