Crazy guess what the answer is to the idiom "A little boy fishes in dirty water"? In the picture, there is a little boy fishing in dirty water. Can you think of the answer right away? Let’s take a look with the editor below, I hope you all like it.
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Answer: Fishing in troubled waters
Analysis: Another word for "water is very dirty" is "water is very turbid". If you fish in turbid water, the idiom "fishing in turbid water" will pop up in your head.
Fishing in troubled waters means:
It is a metaphor for taking advantage of chaos and profiting from it.
Source
Lao She's "Four Generations Under One Roof·Confusion·10": "If the matter has been decided, he can immediately fish in troubled waters; it doesn't matter whether there is a war in Shanghai or not."