to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method; to ask for the impossible; to look for fish by climbing a treeidiomatic expressionfrom Menciussee also 木に縁りて魚を求む【きによりてうおをもとむ】
to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method; to ask for the impossible; to look for fish by climbing a treeidiomatic expressionfrom Menciussee also 木に縁りて魚を求む【きによりてうおをもとむ】
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