Snipe and Clam (pinyin: yù bàng xiāng zhēng)

Snipe and Clam is a historical fable, which is a provincialism of "Snipe and Clam fight, Fisherman Gain Profit", from the Western Han Dynasty's Liu Xiang's "Strategies of the Warring States" (战国策) and "Yan Strategies II" (燕策二), a Chinese idiom meaning that an argument between two people will result in both losing and injuring each other, while a third party gains the benefit. The idiom of "Snipe and Mussel Struggle, Fisherman Gets Benefit" is a metaphor for a situation in which a third party profits from a dispute between two parties that is bound to result in the loss of both parties. Its structure is subject-predicate, and it can be used as object and determiner in a sentence.

Near synonym two defeats and injuries Antonyms in the same boat***Ji

Fable: Snipe and Clam This fable tells people: when doing things, can not take matters into account, before doing things to consider the gains and losses, well thought out, can not only think of their own favorable side, to be modest with each other, take a step back to a broader sky. Especially in all kinds of messy and complicated conflict struggle, if the two opposing sides can't hold on, the result will be a lose-lose situation, so that the third party to reap the benefits. Usually encountered tangled and unpleasant things, first do not be too concerned about their own is to take advantage of, or ate the loss, because this will allow themselves to fall into a kind of wrong thinking, and lead to both sides of the argument, the two sides can not stand, and ultimately will only allow others to take advantage of the situation, the damage to their own and the other side of the interests of both parties, resulting in both sides of the loss is not worth it.