This is a struggle between snipe and clam.
Idiom: snipes and mussels contend.
Pinyin: y bàng Xiāng zhēng
Description: the provincial language of "the snipe and the clam compete, and the fisherman gains". The metaphor is that the two sides are deadlocked and the third party benefits from it.
Source: Qing Xiang Zi Ling's "Xuan Yuanting's Crying Tomb": "After a sea of blood, who dares to scold Qiang Qin? Laugh at him for performance. "
For example, make sentences: clean up our affairs with the Japanese aggressors, and snipes and mussels compete to laugh at princes. -Zhu De's Seven Musts with Comrade Dong (3)
Pinyin code: ybxz
Synonym: snipe and clam compete for danger.
Usage: as object and attribute; Used to do things
Crane-mussel competing translation
Struggle between snipe and clam (1)
The mussel is exposed, while the snipe pecks at its meat. The clam closes and pinches its beak.
The snipe said, "If it doesn't rain today, it won't rain tomorrow, that is, there are dead mussels."
The clam is also called the snipe: "If you don't come out today, you will die tomorrow."
If the two men refuse to give up, the fisherman will get it and catch it.
Word annotation
① Selected from The Warring States Policy. ② Mytilus (b4ng): a mollusk born in fresh water, with two oval hard shells that can be opened and closed. (3) Exposure (P): Sunbathing means that mussels go to the seaside to bask in the sun. ④ snipe (y))；); ); Bird names often catch fish, insects and shellfish by the water. ⑤ Clamp (qi2n): Clamp. ⑥ beak ([email protection]): the beak of a bird. ⑦ That is: just right. 8 can't pull it out: the snipe mouth can't be pulled out. ⑨ catch (q0n): catch。
Poetry translation
As soon as the mussel climbed onto the beach and opened its shell to bask in the sun, a snipe came to peck at its meat. The clam sensitively disturbs its hard shell and tightly grips the snipe's long beak. The snipe said to the clam, "If it doesn't rain today, if it doesn't rain tomorrow, you will get sunburned." The clam also said to the snipe, "If you can't pull out your mouth today, if you can't pull out your mouth tomorrow, you will die of thirst and hunger!" Neither snipe nor clam will let anyone. As a result, they were caught by fishermen effortlessly.