idiom > as incompatible or irreconcilable as ice and hot coals
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As incompatible as ice and hot coals
　　Explanation: Ice: ice; charcoal: charcoal; Content: accepted. Analogy of two opposite things can not coexist
　　Usage: Complex sentence; for clause; describe opposites
　　Source: Lu Song, "assistant minister to send questions Li Ji Zhang Shilin Tang," poem: "Do not you see, cattle Qi Zhang and Li Weigong, life as incompatible as ice and hot coals."
　　Examples: There is a body of revolution and said that literature is ~, that two things can not exist side by side. ★ Guo, "Revolution and Literature"
No. 2
　　Ice: ice; charcoal: charcoal. Analogy of two opposing things can not coexist.
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No. 3
　　词 目 冰炭不相容
　　【发 音】： bīng tàn bù xiāng róng
　　【释 义 冰】：冰块；炭：炭火。比喻两种二种事物完全对立。
　　【出 处】： 《韩非子·显学》：“夫冰炭不同器而久，寒暑不兼时而至。杂反之学不两立而治。”
　　【示 例 】：有一派人说：革命和文学是～的，这两个东西根本不能并立。
　　【近义词】：冰炭不同器、水火不容
　　【反义词】：和平共处
　　【语法】：复句式；作分句；形容对立的事物
　　★郭沫若《革命与文学》
English Expression
  1. n.:  as incompatible or irreconcilable as ice and hot coals
Thesaurus
deadliness, at daggers drawn, ingrained animosity, Bingtan different devices, Inimical Do not vote, each pursuing his onward journey, internecine, fire and water incompatible, of no importance, agree like cats and dogs, desert state of being irrelevant, The Ben affair, part, fractionate, walk out on sb.
Antonym
be called on, every common man has his obligation, will not refuse under any circumstances, not decline to shoulder a responsibility, go through thick and thin together, Wife Yi Du, Keiji be too busy, bead (of two good things) combined together Case, Phase of life, depend on each other for survival, (of two things) be both opposite and complementary to each other, each shining more brilliantly in the other's company, to complement each other., Shall be ordered phase, Exposure thereamong, duty-bound, blame Amount to return, responsibility rests where it belongs