The set phrase means that a work of art is depicted very vividly, like the real thing.

经常会用来形容美术等文艺作品对事物的刻画非常准确，就好像真的一样。

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The set phrase"carrying faggots to put out a fire"is used to mean adopting a wrong method to save a situation and ending up by making it worse.

成语“抱薪救火”比喻用错误的方法去消灭祸害，结果反而使祸害扩大。

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People often use the set phrase "staying by a stump waiting for more hares to come and dash themselves against it" to refer to persons dreaming to reap without sowing.

从此，他就不再种地了，一天到晚守着那个神奇的树根，等着奇迹再次出现。 人们后来就常用“守株待兔”这个成语来形容那些老梦想着不耕种就会有收获的人。

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And there has been one set of crises which are quite, to use the phrase, exogenous, external to the government which have befallen us.

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From the government benches came an answering phrase in the rich bourdon of Geoffrey Cox (Con, Torridge and West Devon), who enthusiastically set about embroidering the same theme with his customary eloquence.

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