- to fish in troubled water (idiom); to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain
- also written 渾水摸魚|浑水摸鱼
Characters
- 混 (混): confused; dirty; to mix; muddy; variant of 渾|浑[hun2]
- 水 (水): surname Shui
- 摸 (摸): to feel with the hand; to touch; to stroke; to grope; to steal; to abstract
- 鱼 (魚): surname Yu
Resources
- Wiktionary: 混水摸鱼
- MDBG: 混水摸鱼
- Examples with 混水摸鱼 on Tatoeba
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