Chinese Idiom puzzle 16 (中文填字遊戲) A new puzzle for March 2021


Steal the bell while covering your ears (deceiving yourself that you are deceiving the others)

Revenge one's personal vengeance in the name of official business

Opportunistic

Eating it means 'you are fired' (Cantonese custom)

Having the same aspirations and ideals

Superb craftsmanship

Received help but not return the favor

Match two parties together; act as a go-between

The castle gate is on fire (殃及池魚 上句)

If the water is too clean, there will be no fish (人至察則無徒  上句)

At old age that one's life is like a burning candle in the wind

Miserable wind and cold rain

Located at a high place looking down.(metaphorically in an advantageous position)

Like willow leaves swaying in the wind

No light is on  (a common phrase in Cantonese)

Arrogant; conceited

Stir things up; create chaos

there's always someone better

Very old and will die soon

Die alone at old age

Know right from wrong

People have different ideal and goal cannot work together

To act recklessly regardless of right and wrong.


A. The power of a united people's will is as strong as a castle.
B. Bully around
C. Find a better job elsewhere
D. There's honor among thieves
E. Fire spread by riding the wind
F. Building, constructing in large scale
G. Surrender
H. Turbulent, extremely unstable situation
I. Prime minister
J. Coincidence
K. No wind and the water is calm (a metaphor for everything is calm and normal)
L. Take by defrauding or seize by force. Mostly used to describe the unscrupulous seizure of property or power, etc.
M. cruel
N. Heaven doesn't give him more years (die too soon)
O. Oustanding
P. Social worker
Q. Ip Man's birthplace 南方武術之鄉
R. When the water rises, so do the boats (a metaphor for people or things rise in value or status due to change of situations)
S. Damn old fool (Common term in Cantonese)
T. Secretly give and receive in private
U. Metaphors of corrupted people have the same characteristics everywhere in the world.
V. Voice your objection when there's injustice
W. Know the fact but not reporting it to the authorities
X.  The night is dark and the wind is high
Y. Like fish in the water
Z. Confused; not knowing the truth
掩耳盗铃
公报私仇
投机取巧
无情鸡
志同道合
巧夺天工
受恩不报
撮合
城门失火
水至清则无鱼
风烛残年
凄风冷雨
居高临下
摇风摆柳
乌灯黑火
自高自大
兴风作浪
一山更比一山高
行将就木
孤独终老
黑白分明
道不同，不相为谋
不分青红皂白

A. 众志成城
B. 横行霸道
C. 另谋高就
D. 盗亦有道
E. 火借风势
F. 大兴土木
G. 投降
H. 风雨飘摇
I. 丞相
J. 巧合
K. 风平浪静
L. 巧取豪夺
M. 残忍
N. 天不假年
O. 一枝独秀
P. 义工
Q. 佛山
R. 水涨船高
S. 老而不
T. 私相授受
U. 天下乌鸦一般黑
V. 不平则鸣
W. 知情不报
X. 月黑风高
Y. 如鱼得水
Z. 不明不白